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The Ship Domain – A Criterion of Navigational Safety Assessment in an Open Sea Area

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2008

Zbigniew Pietrzykowski  and
Janusz Uriasz
Zbigniew Pietrzykowski*
Affiliation:
(Maritime University of Szczecin)
Janusz Uriasz
Affiliation:
(Maritime University of Szczecin)
*
(Email: z.pietrzykowski@am.szczecin.pl)
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Abstract

One of the basic tasks in shipping is to ensure safe navigation of vessels. The concept of the ship domain is of major importance in the assessment of a navigational situation and the avoidance of ship collisions. It is difficult to determine a ship domain as its shape and size depend on a number of factors. One question to be answered before the determination of the ship domain is which method to use: statistical, analytic, or expert method using artificial intelligence tools; other questions are connected with domain interpretation. The authors have analyzed the ship domain as a criterion for the assessment of ship navigational safety in an encounter situation in the open sea. The research results are used to answer some of the questions.

Part 2 includes definitions of the ship domain and ship fuzzy domain. Part 3, in turn, presents methods of their determination as well as relevant questions. The results of the authors' research, described in Part 4, make up a basis for the determination of the domain and ship fuzzy domain. These have been determined with the so-called dynamic domains as a point of departure. The criteria of ship domain and closest point of approach are compared and discussed. Encounters of various size ships are considered in Part 5. The research and its results are described. Both ship domains and ship fuzzy domains of encountering ships are analyzed. Then, conclusions have been formulated in relation to the effect of the sizes of encountering ships on the shapes and sizes of their domains. Final conclusions are given in Part 6.

Keywords

navigational safetyship domainopen sea area

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The Journal of Navigation , Volume 62 , Issue 1 , January 2009 , pp. 93 - 108
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 2008

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