Open AccessAdditional Test Manoeuvres for Autonomous Inland Vessels
Author(s) -
Gerben Peeters,
Gökay Yayla,
Muhammad Raheel Afzal,
Senne Van Baelen,
Tim Catoor,
Maarten Vanierschot,
René Boonen,
Peter Slaets
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.179
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/929/1/012024
Subject(s) - propulsion , test (biology) , thrust , marine engineering , range (aeronautics) , engineering , aeronautics , computer science , geology , aerospace engineering , paleontology
Standardised test manoeuvres are used to identify the manoeuvrability of a vessel. Currently, most of these tests are unsatisfactory to properly judge the manoeuvring capabilities of an inland vessel which sails in different environments than the seagoing ships for which these tests were initially designed. Moreover, inland vessels tend to have non-conventional propulsion systems and configurations which further decreases the adequacy of these standardised tests. Therefore, this study investigates the inland-applicability of these existing standardised test manoeuvres. In addition, this study suggests three new manoeuvres: (i) the Counter Thrust Test, (ii) the Sine Angle Test, and (iii) the Simultaneous Zigzag Test. In order to validate the suitability of these tests, an autonomous inland cargo vessel performed two of these suggested manoeuvres, (i) and (ii), and one existing manoeuvre, named the Crabbing test. The data of these experiments show fruitful insights in the wide range of manoeuvring capabilities of the examined inland vessel, which the standardised tests would not have uncovered.