Annual General Assembly 2005 - Malmö

Section 3

Development of Onboard Ship Manoeuvring Simulators and their Application to Onboard Training.

Hideo YABUKI¹, Takahiro TAKEMOTO², Tsuyoshi ISHIGURO³ and Hikaru KAMIIRISA⁴
1 - Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Japan.
2 - National Institute for Sea Training, Japan.
3 - IHI Marine United Inc, Japan.
4 - Akishima Laboratories( Mitsui Zosen) Inc, Japan

ABSTRACT

The authors developed two types of onboard ship manoeuvring simulators and a new onboard training method utilizing an onboard Ship Manoeuvring Simulator (SMS) that makes practical onboard training for cadets more successful and efficient. This paper describes the outline of the developed simulators and the results of an experiment conducted on a training ship that aimed at assessing the feasibility and the effectiveness of the proposed training method. Based on the results of the experiment, the authors propose an optimal combination of onboard SMS training with real training on a training ship and designed another onboard SMS to overcome the limitation of the first onboard SMS.

Keywords: onboard ship manoeuvring simulator, onboard training, maritime education and training.

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