Augmented Reality in ships navigation

Information support in the E-navigation way

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Do we dislike humans?

Are we monitoring navigators?

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Imagine:2nd Officer, after doing 00-04 watch, starts

work again at five am, entering port, berthing, opening hatches at seven,

breakfast, receiving port state control for inspection safety equipment, a hot meal at 1130 starting watch at 12 midday until four PM, doing administration, short supper at

5:30 assisting hatch closing and unberthing at seven and able to rest a few hours after

leaving port,next watch commences at 0000.

this is not an uncommon working day..

imagine a little further:

01:45 new moon, rainy night at the NorthSea, poor visibility, leaving TSS

Vlieland Junction,

a westbound container vessels on SB side, a supplier astern some fishing vessels ahead,

Collision Warning!! unexpectedly What, where...??

that takes valuable time to find out

Would it help if the watch officer was provided with a visual clue about the direction

of the dangerous target ?Would it help if the watch officer had this clue

in a head up display,showing the real outside world together with

a synthetic marker on top?Thus speeding up detecting the target and

start evasive action

Of course:The watch officer shall always be alert

The WO shall always act timely and comply with the collision regulations

Yet, Ships do collide

Ships do run agroundAnd more mishap appears

What do we need for that Position, course and speed of Own ShipPosition course and speed of target an algorithm calculating relative distance and direction

An algorithm to discriminate targets and generate alarm

Means of presenting this in an augmented way (i.a not virtual)

Of course we can bring in more:

Routeing information, even route suggestion

Safety information, like MSI Weather information Ships' Control information Virtual binocular with the aid of a multi

spectral band camera

Augmented Reality goggles

Initial idea to create a 'cocoon' with Transparent monitors around the watch

officers' chair, however availability of such monitors was lacking at least until now.

instead

Issues to solve and research

Correct for roll pitch and heave Correct for position of the watchkeeper

(parallax effect) Reliability of third party information (AIS) Integrity check by means of RADAR Human factors, how does this have an

effect on the watch keeper.

Embedding in E-navigation :

ACCSEAS prototype solutions

Tactical Route exchange Dynamic NoGo areas RouteTopology Modelling Resilient PNT Maritime cloud

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