System-theoretic approach to safety of remotely-controlled merchant vessel

K Wróbel, J Montewka, P Kujala - Ocean Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
Unmanned merchant vessels' prototypes are expected to come into operation within a few
years. This revolutionary shift in the shipping industry is feared to negatively impact the …

Ship domain applied to determining distances for collision avoidance manoeuvres in give-way situations

R Szlapczynski, P Krata, J Szlapczynska - Ocean Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
Ship domain is often used in marine navigation and marine traffic engineering as a safety
condition. The basic idea behind those applications is that an encounter of two or more …

Ship weather routing optimization with dynamic constraints based on reliable synchronous roll prediction

P Krata, J Szlapczynska - Ocean Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
Ship routing process taking into account weather conditions is a constrained multi-objective
optimization problem and it should consider various optimization criteria and constraints …

Determining and visualizing safe motion parameters of a ship navigating in severe weather conditions

R Szlapczynski, P Krata - Ocean Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
The paper presents a method of determining, organizing and displaying ship collision
avoidance information, which is based on the Collision Threat Parameters Area (CTPA) …

Towards a decision support system for maritime navigation on heavily trafficked basins

B Ożoga, J Montewka - Ocean Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
Sea traffic growing from year to year contributes significantly to increase of dangerous ship-
ship encounters, which if not handled properly may result in an accident. The existing anti …

Nonlinear Jump Resonance: Recent Trends from Analysis to Electronic Circuits Implementations

A Buscarino, C Famoso, L Fortuna… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this Tutorial Brief, an unconventional overview on the phenomenon of jump resonance in
nonlinear forced circuits and systems is presented. Instead of focusing on the analysis of its …

A hybrid data-driven model of ship roll

KE Marlantes, KJ Maki - Ocean Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
A hybrid data-driven method, which combines low-fidelity physics with machine learning
(ML) to model nonlinear forces and moments at a reduced computational cost, is applied to …

Experimental and numerical investigation on anti-rolling performance of a DP semi-submersible platform based on thruster group biasing

L Tang, Y Wang, L Wang, Y Zhang - Ocean Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
For semi-submersible platforms equipped with dynamic positioning (DP) system, which has
a small water-plane area and low metacentric height, roll motion will be affected by the …

Towards a method for detecting large roll motions suitable for oceangoing ships

M Acanfora, P Krata, J Montewka, P Kujala - Applied Ocean Research, 2018 - Elsevier
The concept of autonomous merchant ships is quite recent. The increasing interest in
autonomous vessels is nowadays calling for smart technologies that are supposed to …

Towards realistic estimation of ship excessive motions in heavy weather. A case study of a containership in the Pacific Ocean

M Acanfora, J Montewka, T Hinz, J Matusiak - Ocean Engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
Synchronous roll and parametric roll resonance are critical phenomena that lead a ship,
under certain conditions, to quickly develop large roll amplitudes. This will result in …