Mobile Bridge - A Portable Design Simulator for Ship Bridge Interfaces

Abstract

Developing new software components for ship bridges is challenging. Mostly due to high costs of testing these components in realistic environments. To reduce these costs the development process is divided into different stages. Whereas, the final test on a real ship bridge is the last step in this process. However, by dividing the development process into different stages new components have to be adapted to each stage individually. To improve the process we propose a mobile ship bridge system to fully support the development process from lab studies to tests in realistic environments. Our system allows developing new software components in the lab and setting it up on a ship bridge without interfering with the vesselʹs navigational systems. Therefore it is linked to a NaviBox to get necessary information such as GPS, AIS, compass, and radar information. Our system is embedded in LABSKAUS, a test bed for the safety assessment of new e-Navigation systems. http://www.transnav.eu the International Journal on Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation Volume 12 Number 4

Towards a Cyber-Physical Range for the Integrated Navigation System (INS)

“…Year Type A generic testbed for simulation and physical based testing of maritime cyber-physical system of systems [23] 2019 C A study on the verification of collision avoidance support system in real voyages [24] 2015 C Comparing simulation with physical verification and validation in a maritime test field [25] 2020 J eMaritime integrated reference platform [26] 2016 C HAGGIS: A modelling and simulation platform for e-maritime technology assessment [27] 2014 C LABSKAUS-A physical platform for e-maritime technology assessment [28] 2014 C Learning from automotive: Testing maritime assistance systems up to autonomous vessels [29] 2017 C Mobile Bridge-A portable design simulator for ship bridge interfaces [8] 2018 J Physical testbed for highly automated and autonomous vessels [30] 2017 C The SLR identified two bridge testbeds: the eMaritime Integrated Reference (eMIR) platform [38], developed by academia, and the Hyundai intelligent Collision Avoidance Support System (HiCASS) testbed [24], developed by industry. Of the two, the eMIR platform is among those recognized by the International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation and Lighthouse Authorities (IALA), whereas the HiCASS testbed is not 1 .…”

“…The architecture for maritime traffic simulation is presented in [37]. Photos of the developed virtual mobile bridge are shown in [8,28,30,35]. Virtual controls for the bridge are shown in [8].…”

“…Photos of the developed virtual mobile bridge are shown in [8,28,30,35]. Virtual controls for the bridge are shown in [8]. The virtual bridge is placed in cases, to facilitate mobility.…”

“…The testing of developed technologies on real ship bridges causes high costs and safety risks; this is why the development process may be divided into different stages [8]. Simulators can be used in the early development stages.…”

“…Simulators can be used in the early development stages. However, not all aspects of a developed technology can be captured by a simulator, therefore porting of such technologies to real vessels may still create problems [8], that can be avoided by the use of a testbed instead. A testbed, defined by the IMO as "a platform for trialling development projects" [9] constitutes a realistic and safe environment for the transparent and replicable testing of research theories, computational tools, and new technologies.…”