Maneuverability Calculation Based on Synthetically Targets Recognition

Aiming at the coming ship's maneuverability calculation in the deterministic automatic collision avoidance system (ACAS), a new kind of ship maneuverability identification system was presented based on synthetically targets identification, which can identify the coming ship's type and length based on the echo data from multi sensors including ship radar, sonar and AIS. With help of ship navigation property database, the necessary ship characteristic parameters were estimated, with which parameters of the coming ship's maneuverability response equation can be identified by maneuverability calculation module