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

Abstract

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.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA228968

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  • J. Mazurkiewicz
  • M. W. Smith
  • W. K. Brown

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  • Ground and Sea Platforms

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  • Center Of Gravity
  • Coast Guard
  • Commercial Pilots
  • Computers
  • Data Analysis
  • Deep Water
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Great Lakes
  • Naval Architecture
  • Operations Research
  • Research Facilities
  • Risk Factors
  • Ship Models
  • Simulators
  • Systems Engineering
  • United States

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  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
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  • Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.