Over the years, the demand for maritime transportation has rapidly increased [1], [2]. This usually leads to an increasing in competition among different ports in providing efficient services. Port managers face significant challenges in efficiently utilizing the given resources to provide a cost-effective service [1]. Among many optimization and decision making problems in the port management ...

Genetic Algorithm which is based on the Darwinian principle of natural selection has been successfully applied to Berth allocation problem (BAP), which can decide the ships’ berthing position and berthing time at a container terminal. Considering the service priority, handing time deciding variables, safety clearance, as well as the berths’ physical conditions, a dynamic berth allocation with d...

Manoeuvring ship during berthing has always required vast experience, skill and knowledge to provide desired necessary actions. Presence of environmental disturbances as well as decreased manoeuvrability in low speed often makes the whole procedure so sophisticated that even slight mistake may results catastrophic disaster. By knowing the fact that Artificial Neural Network (ANN) has the abilit...

This paper describes the advances being made in space robotics simulation to meet the challenges of astronaut training and space operations support. This simulator (MOTS) is being used to train International Space Station astronauts to perform on-orbit robotics tasks. It also supports mission planning and task verification in an operationally representative environment. The simulator supports c...

Over the years, along with the progress and development of science and technology, the number and size of large vessels are enlarging continuously, which brings a lot of pressure to the pilots. To lighten the heavy burden of the pilots and decrease the possibility of the accident during the pilotage, the berthing system of large vessels is researched and implement. The system is an electronic c...

We consider a port consisting of a cluster of inter-related terminals, where container vessels arrive cyclically. The problem is to strategically assign a terminal and a time interval of berthing to each of the vessels in the cycle. Restricting properties are terminal quay lengths and quay crane capacity. Conflicting objectives are i) minimizing the number of required quay cranes, ii) minimizin...

In the Berth Allocation Problem (BAP) the aim is to optimally schedule and assign ships to berthing areas along a quay. The objective is the minimization of the total (weighted) service time for all ships, defined as the time elapsed between the arrival in the harbor and the completion of handling. Two versions of the BAP are considered: the discrete case and the continuous case. The discrete c...