Ship collision prevention has always been a hot topic of research for navigation safety.Recently,autonomous ships have gained much attention as a means of solving collision problems by machine control with a collision...Ship collision prevention has always been a hot topic of research for navigation safety.Recently,autonomous ships have gained much attention as a means of solving collision problems by machine control with a collision-avoidance algorithm.An important question is how to determine optimal path planning for autonomous ships.This paper proposes a path-planning method of collision avoidance for multi-ship encounters that is easy to realize for autonomous ships.The ship course-control system uses fuzzy adaptive proportion-integral-derivative(PID)control to achieve real-time control of the system.The automatic course-altering process of the ship is predicted by combining the ship-motion model and PID controller.According to the COLREGs,ships should take different actions in different encounter situations.Therefore,a scene-identification model is established to identify these situations.To avoid all the TSs,the applicable course-altering range of the OS is obtained by using the improved velocity obstacle model.The optimal path of collision avoidance can be determined from an applicable course-altering range combined with a scene-identification model.Then,the path planning of collision avoidance is realized in the multi-ship environment,and the simulation results show a good effect.The method conforms to navigation practice and provides an effective method for the study of collision avoidance.展开更多
基金supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China(grant no.52071249)the National Key Research and Development Program(grant no.2019YFB1600603).
文摘Ship collision prevention has always been a hot topic of research for navigation safety.Recently,autonomous ships have gained much attention as a means of solving collision problems by machine control with a collision-avoidance algorithm.An important question is how to determine optimal path planning for autonomous ships.This paper proposes a path-planning method of collision avoidance for multi-ship encounters that is easy to realize for autonomous ships.The ship course-control system uses fuzzy adaptive proportion-integral-derivative(PID)control to achieve real-time control of the system.The automatic course-altering process of the ship is predicted by combining the ship-motion model and PID controller.According to the COLREGs,ships should take different actions in different encounter situations.Therefore,a scene-identification model is established to identify these situations.To avoid all the TSs,the applicable course-altering range of the OS is obtained by using the improved velocity obstacle model.The optimal path of collision avoidance can be determined from an applicable course-altering range combined with a scene-identification model.Then,the path planning of collision avoidance is realized in the multi-ship environment,and the simulation results show a good effect.The method conforms to navigation practice and provides an effective method for the study of collision avoidance.
