<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The article presents a method to determine the route of a sailing vessel with the aid of deterministic algorithms. The method assumes that the area in which the route is to be determined is limited and the basic input data comprise the wind vector and the speed characteristic of the vessel. Compared to previous works of the authors, the present article additionally takes into account the effect of sea waves with the resultant resistance increase on the vessel speed. This approach brings the proposed model closer to real behaviour of a sailing vessel. The result returned by the method is the sailing route, optimised based on the multi-criteria objective function. Along with the time criterion, this function also takes into account comfort of voyage and the number of performed turns. The developed method has been implemented as simulation application SaillingAssistance and experimentally verified.</p></abstract>

The article presents a method to determine the route of a sailing vessel with the aid of deterministic algorithms. The method assumes that the area in which the route is to be determined is limited and the basic input data comprise the wind vector and the speed characteristic of the vessel. Compared to previous works of the authors, the present article additionally takes into account the effect of sea waves with the resultant resistance increase on the vessel speed. This approach brings the proposed model closer to real behaviour of a sailing vessel. The result returned by the method is the sailing route, optimised based on the multi-criteria objective function. Along with the time criterion, this function also takes into account comfort of voyage and the number of performed turns. The developed method has been implemented as simulation application SaillingAssistance and experimentally verified.

Multi-Objective Weather Routing of Sailboats Considering Wave Resistance

Polish Maritime Research

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The article presents a method to determine the route of a sailing vessel with the aid of deterministic algorithms. The method assumes that the area in which...

Multi-Objective Weather Routing of Sailboats Considering Wave Resistance

Data publikacji: 11 kwi 2018

Zakres stron: 4 - 12

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pomr-2018-0001

Słowa kluczowe
sailing vessels, weather routing, waves, navigation, resistance

© 2018 Marcin Życzkowski et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Multi-Objective Weather Routing of Sailboats Considering Wave Resistance

Data publikacji: 11 kwi 2018

Zakres stron: 4 - 12

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pomr-2018-0001

Słowa kluczowesailing vessels, weather routing, waves, navigation, resistance

© 2018 Marcin Życzkowski et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Słowa kluczowe
sailing vessels, weather routing, waves, navigation, resistance