On the Design of Marine Traffic Control System (2 nd Report)
Jin Yan, Takeo Koyama · Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Japan · 1988
In this research, the marine traffic control is distributed into each ship in the water area, and through the distribution of the traffic control we propose a new maneuvering style, called cooperative maneuvering. This paper presents the proposal and the development of a problem solving approach to realize the new maneuvering style.Cooperative maneuvering represents both the distributed traffic control strategy and a new maneuvering style. Its most important feature is the cooperation between ships by using inter-ship communication. The distribution of control entails a series of problems like how ships should talk with each other, how a ship should make her decisions of action which do not interfer with actions of other ships, etc. To solve these problems we developed a distributed problem solving approach by addressing the nature of cooperations in cooperative maneuvering.