• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.737-740
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• 2001

We develope the PC based SPS to improve safety at sea, save fuel and time during a voyage and makes mariner's work more efficient and comfortable in ship navigation, who propose the auto-navigation system with SPS as basic main system. Developed SPS operate the function to monitor navigational equipment and to substitute a broken main navigational equipment such as CIS, ECDIS, or Radar/ARPA, automatically. These can be improve more efficient and comfortable ship navigation and reduce these traffic accident. The SPS has the function as DB and network server, additionally.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.95-97
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• 2015

Automatic Collision Prevention Training and RADAR Simulation Training, designated educations by the STCW Convention, are essential for officers to complete in order to board a ship. Recently, designated education institution standard based curriculum and requirements of the necessary facilities have been placed as a regulatory advisory requiring each institutions to match this and introduce equipment for simulation education, the FMSS(Full Mission Simulator System). Since the introduction of this research until today, a survey has been executed in order to find out the effect of utilizing the FMSS in ARPA/RADRA/Simulation Training for a period of 1 year. The result showed that 2.13times have been more effective. In addition, based on the results, identifying problems that occur during the education period and providing solutions to these problems have been proposed.

• Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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• v.36 no.5
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• pp.525-533
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• 2017

Objective: The aim of this study is to investigate maritime officers' strategies to avoid the ship collision in crossing situations. Background: In a situation where there is a risk of collision between two ships, maritime officers can change the direction and speed of the own-ship to avoid the collision. They have four options to select; adjusting the speed only, the direction only, both the speed and direction at the same time and no action. Research questions were whether the strategy they are using differs according to the shipboard experience of maritime officers and the representation method of ARPA (automatic radar plotting aid) - radar graphic information. Method: Participants were 12. Six of them had more than 3 years of onboard experience, while the others were 4th grade students at Korea Maritime and Ocean University. For each participant, 32 ship encounter situations were provided with ARPA-radar information. 16 situations were presented by the north-up display and 16 situations were presented by the track-up display. Participants were asked to decide how to move the own-ship to avoid the ship collision for each case. Results: Most participants attempted to avoid the collision by adjusting the direction of the ship, representing an average of 22.4 times in 32 judgment trials (about 70%). Participants who did not have experience on board were more likely to control speed and direction at the same time than participants with onboard experience. Participants with onboard experience were more likely to control the direction of the ship only. On the other hand, although the same ARPA Information was provided to the participants, the participants in many cases made different judgments depending on the method of information representation; track-up display and north-up display. It was only 25% that the participants made the same judgment under the same collision situations. Participants with onboard experience did make the same judgment more than participants with no onboard experience. Conclusion: In marine collision situations, maritime officers tend to avoid collisions by adjusting only the direction of their ships, and this tendency is more pronounced among maritime officers with onboard experience. The effect of the method of information representation on their judgment was not significant. Application: The results of this research might help to train maritime officers for safe navigation and to design a collision avoidance support system.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Simulation Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.41-46
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• 2002

이 연구는 기존 VTS 시스템의 효율성을 증대시키기 위해 VTS 시스템에 선박조종 시뮬레이터를 기능적으로 연계시켜 VTS 시스템을 3차원으로 확장시키고자 시도된 것이다. 기존의 VTS 시스템은 ARPA Radar를 이용한 2차원에 국한된 관제 시스템이나 이 시스템에 분산처리 네트워크방식을 적용하여 3차원 기능을 가진 VTS 시스템으로의 확장이 가능하도록 하였다. 이러한 확장된 VTS 시스템의 운용은 선박의 안전운항에 큰 역할을 할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Fisheries Technology Conference
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.61-62
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• 2002

본 연구는 전보에서 개발한 RTX에 대한 응용 연구의 하나로써 레이더 영상 신호의 수록 및 해석에 부가하여 타선의 GPS 위치정보를 수신하여 자선의 전자해도(ENC) 및 radar 화면상에서 동시에 표시함으로써 이들 두 선박의 간격을 측정할 수 있는 선간거리계, 또한, 타선의 ARPA radar가 탐지한 영상신호, 타선의 기동정보(own ship data, OSD) 및 추적표적의 정보(tracked target message, TTM) 등을 자선의 레이더나 전자해도 화면상에서 실시간으로 모니터링하는 software를 개발하고, 이들의 레이더 정보를 필요에 따라 hard disk에 수록 및 재생할 수 있는 아주 간편하면서도 범용성이 있는 레이더 정보수록 및 해석 시스템을 개발하였다. (중략)

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.15 no.11
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• pp.47-56
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• 2010

In navigation, officers receive data about inside and outside of ship from several devices(ex, GPS / AIS / ECDIS / ARPA Radar / etc) in bridge, and use it to recognize and predict safety situations. However, observation work of a officer is still hard for a torrent of data from several devices, and the problem of inconsistent data among the devices. In previous research, we presented the conceptual model of Intelligent Navigation Safety Information System based on information fusion, and showed the example of the conceptual model using CF (Certainty Factor) expert system to solve this problem. The information fusion technology needs various reasoning skills, and CF expert system is not enough to express ambiguous or indefinite factors. In this paper, we propose the concept of an intelligent navigation information fusion using fuzzy expert system to describe the ambiguous factors, and show the validity of applying fuzzy expert system to the Navigation Safety Information System through the design and implementation of the proposed concept.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.337-343
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• 2013

To ensure the safety for vessels anchored in stormy weather, duty officer and VTS operator have to frequently check whether their anchors are dragging. To judge dragging of the anchored vessel, it is important for VTS operator to recognize the turning circle and its center of the anchored vessel. The judgement for the anchored vessel dragging can be made by using Radar and AIS. If it is available, CCTV or eye-sighting can be used to know the center of turing circle. However, the VTS system collects individual ship's dynamic information from AIS and ARPA radar and monitors of the anchored vessels, it is difficult for VTS operator not only to get the detailed status information of the vessels, but also to know the center of turning circle. In this study, we propose an efficient algorithm to estimate the center of turning circle of anchored vessel by using the ship's heading and position data, which were from AIS. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, the experimental study was made for the anchored vessel under real environments.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.55-57
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• 2015

The tracking system plays a key role in accurate estimation and prediction of maneuvering vessel's position and velocity in a bid to enhance safety by taking avoiding action against collision. Therefore, in order to achieve this, many ocean- going vessels are equipped with radar and the ARPA system. However, the accuracy of prediction highly depends on the choice of the gain parameters, ${\alpha}$, ${\beta}$ and ${\gamma}$ employed in the tracking filter. P revious research of this paper was based on theoretically developing an algorithm for a tracking module. This research paper is hence a continuation by the authors to determine the optimal values of the gain parameters used in the tracking module. A tracking algorithm is developed using the ${\alpha}-{\beta}-{\gamma}$ filter to carry out prediction and smoothing of the positions and velocities. Numerical simulations are then performed to evaluate the optimal values of the smoothing parameters that will improve the performance of the tracking module and reduce measurement noise. The twice distance root mean square (2drms) is then calculated to determine error variation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2006.10a
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• pp.63-70
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• 2006

Now AIS (Automatic Identification System) has been under full operation for ocean-going vessels, and it is expected not only to identify target ships but also to take collision avoidance using AIS information with Radar and ARFA information in restricted waters. AIS information is very useful not only for target identifications but also for taking collision avoidance, but OOW (Officer OF Watch-keeping) should take care of systematic observation of AIS because of miss-operation or malfunction of AIS. In this paper, we propose the application of Onboard Ship Handling Simulator with visual system displayed 3D scene added AIS performance such as blind areas of Island, microwave propagation, ok. and maneuvering simulation using TK models, applied real time AIS information and research the effectiveness of this system for ship handling in restricted waters, and discus the principal issues through the on board experiments. Conclusion will be expected that; 1) systematic observation of ASS information using visual scene simulator with AIS information will be effectively done, 2) observation compared with Radar and ARPA information will be also useful to make a systematic observation, 3) using the recording and replay function of simulation will be useful not only for systematic observation but also to measure and to encourage officers' skill.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.32 no.7
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• pp.529-535
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• 2008

As a method to reduce collision accidents of ships at sea, this paper suggests an expert system for collision avoidance and navigation (hereafter "ESCAN"). The ESCAN is designed and developed by using the theory and technology of expert system and based on the information provided by AIS and RADAR/ARPA system. In this paper the ESCAN is composed of four(4) components; Facts/Data Base in charge of preserving data from navigational equipment, Knowledge Base storing production rules of the ESCAN, Inference Engine deciding which rules are satisfied by facts or objects, User System Interface for communication between users and ESCAN. The ESCAN has the function of real--time analysis and judgment of various encountering situations between own ship and targets, and is to provide navigators with appropriate plans of collision avoidance and additional advice and recommendation This paper, as a basic study, is to introduce the basic design and function of ESCAN.