<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The paper presents a multi-objective method, which optimises the route of a sailboat. The presented method makes use of an evolutionary multi-objective (EMO) algorithm, which performs the optimisation according to three objective functions: total passage time, a sum of all course alterations made during the voyage and the average angle of heel. The last two of the objective functions reflect the navigator’s and passenger’s comfort, which may decrease with multiple turns or when experiencing an excessive heel angle for a long time. The optimisation process takes into account static bathymetry-related constraints as well as dynamic constraints related to the sailboat’s safety in changing wind and wave conditions. The method makes use of all of the above and finally returns an approximated Pareto set containing non-dominated solutions to the optimisation problem. The developed method has been implemented as a simulation application. The paper includes selected simulation results followed by their discussion.</p></abstract>

The paper presents a multi-objective method, which optimises the route of a sailboat. The presented method makes use of an evolutionary multi-objective (EMO) algorithm, which performs the optimisation according to three objective functions: total passage time, a sum of all course alterations made during the voyage and the average angle of heel. The last two of the objective functions reflect the navigator’s and passenger’s comfort, which may decrease with multiple turns or when experiencing an excessive heel angle for a long time. The optimisation process takes into account static bathymetry-related constraints as well as dynamic constraints related to the sailboat’s safety in changing wind and wave conditions. The method makes use of all of the above and finally returns an approximated Pareto set containing non-dominated solutions to the optimisation problem. The developed method has been implemented as a simulation application. The paper includes selected simulation results followed by their discussion.

Evolutionary Multi–Objective Weather Routing of Sailboats

Polish Maritime Research

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The paper presents a multi-objective method, which optimises the route of a sailboat. The presented method makes use of an evolutionary multi-objective (EMO)...

Evolutionary Multi–Objective Weather Routing of Sailboats

Published Online: Sep 29, 2020

Page range: 130 - 139

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pomr-2020-0054

Keywords
sailing vessels, weather routing, evolutionary multi-objective optimization, weather forecasts, navigation

© 2020 Ewa Sobecka et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Evolutionary Multi–Objective Weather Routing of Sailboats

Published Online: Sep 29, 2020

Page range: 130 - 139

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pomr-2020-0054

Keywordssailing vessels, weather routing, evolutionary multi-objective optimization, weather forecasts, navigation

© 2020 Ewa Sobecka et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords
sailing vessels, weather routing, evolutionary multi-objective optimization, weather forecasts, navigation