Optimization-Supported Decision-Making in the Marine Game Environment

Abstract

This paper analyses optimization methods and game theory to support decision making by a navigator when controlling a vessel in various real navigational situations at sea. We have demonstrated the structure of a computer system for supporting manoeuvring decisions by a navigator. Navigational situations of an optimal and game ship control have been classified. We have also described game algorithms for supporting decision-making in a form of non-cooperative and cooperative positional and matrix games, respectively. The considerations have been illustrated with a computer simulation, using the Matlab/Simulink software, of algorithms for determining safe trajectories of a vessel in a real navigational situation at sea.