Optimal Evasive Maneuver for a Ship in an Environment of Fixed Installations and Other Ships

Collision avoidance for encounters between several ships and installations in the open sea, is treated as a problem of optimal control, using the theory of differential games. Each ship is, in this idealized model, assumed to have two controls corresponding to rudder angle and engine setting. The ob...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Rolf Skjong, Kåre M. Mjelde
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Norwegian Society of Automatic Control 1982-10-01
Series:Modeling, Identification and Control
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Online Access:http://www.mic-journal.no/PDF/1982/MIC-1982-4-2.pdf