The simulator experiment reported here is a component of the USCG Waterway Performance, Design and Evaluation Study, and was done for the development of a procedure to predict performance or risk in a waterway from the characteristics of user traffic. A sample of seven commercial ships, ranging in size from a 33,000 deadweight ton (dwt) bulker to a 250,000 dwt tanker, made multiple transits, under similar channel and environmental conditions, controlled by commercial pilots, in a experiment conducted at the simulator at the USCG Academy in New London, Connecticut. A preliminary analysis that found that piloted performance data grouped over all transits for a given ship varied as expected with ship size (displacement), but was not sensitive to controllability indices. A more detailed analysis by individual runs found that performance was sensitive to these indices. Keywords: Marine simulation, Man-in-the-loop simulation, Ship inherent maneuverability, Piloted maneuverability, Risk assessment, Restricted waterways.


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    Title :

    Effect of Ship Inherent Controllability on Piloted Performance: The Simulator Experiment


    Contributors:
    M. W. SMith (author) / J. Mazurkiewicz (author) / W. K. Brown (author)

    Publication date :

    1990


    Size :

    114 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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