Department of Maritime Simulation Mateusz Bilewski
Title: Dimensioning of Fairway Bends—Kinematic Method of Numerical Simulation
Author/Authors: Stanisław Gucma, Marcin Przywarty, Jan Dzwonkowski, Mateusz Bilewski
Place of publication: Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
Year: 2020
Keywords: manoeuvring safety; safe manoeuvring area; dimensioning of fairway bends
Abstract: The article presents a new kinematic method of numerical simulation intended for establishingdimensions of safe manoeuvring areas of bends in various types of fairways for vessels of specificparameters. The method consists of multiple numerical simulations of a ship’s passage (ship’s centre ofgravity) through a bend, representing the entire physically possible movement of the ship, and an analysisof simulation results. The developed method was verified on the bends of the ́Swinouj́scie–Szczecinfairway, by comparing the results to the exact simulation method of a ship’s movements. The relativelyhigh accuracy and low costs of the method allow it to be used in a concept design of built or modernwaterway systems.
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DOI: 10.3390/jmse8020138
Title: Laser-based aid systems for berthing and docking
Author/Authors: Marko Perkovič, Lucjan Gucma, Mateusz Bilewski, Bartosz Muczyński, Franc Dimc, Blaž Luin, Peter Vidmar, Vivien Lorenčič, Milan Batista
Place of publication: Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, vol.8, issue 5
Year: 2020
Keywords: container ship; precise positioning; portable pilot unit; gyro error; container terminal; berthing and docking;
LiDAR scanner; STS crane
Abstract: The berthing of an ultra large ship is always a difficult issue and becomes yet more complex when vessels must be handled in restricted manoeuvring areas of limited depth, exposed to a forceful crosswind, or manoeuvring in a strong current, or all three. The final approaching manoeuvre and precise positioning is particularly demanding at
container terminals where many STS cranes are located along the quay, seriously limiting margin for error in the process of mooring a ship, especially when the cranes are located nearby a bridge wing or at the very edge of the pier. In
order to avoid collisions, the final manoeuvre (side-push) must be fully controlled; the ship’s orientation must be parallel with the quay while maintaining the minimum lateral approaching velocity without significantly shifting the vessel longitudinally. The mooring of a Ro-Ro vessel is occasionally even more challenging: a precise docking manoeuvre is normally executed without any towing assistance. In this paper low cost laser-based berthing and docking systems developed for the ports of Koper and Swinousce are presented and several berthing manoeuvres are analysed and compared with the most commonly used GNSS-based navigational aid system portable pilot units
(PPU).
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Title: GNSS Measurements Model in Ship Handling Simulators
Author/Authors: Mateusz Bilewski, Paweł Zalewski
Place of publication: IEEE Access , vol. 7, pp. 76428 - 76437
Year: 2019
Keywords: GNSS, GPS, ECDIS, simulation, ship handling, marine navigation
Abstract: Electronic chart display and information system (ECDIS) forms the basis of contemporary and future marine e-navigation, track control, and integrated navigation systems, and is a key navigational aid in maritime ship handling simulators. All the ECDIS information is referred to as positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) data derived from the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) by default. GNSS data fidelity, its representation, and accurate model of error propagation to ship final position are becoming the key factors enabling ship handling simulators to be utilized
in navigators’ training and research analyses of vessels’ maneuvering. This paper presents an advanced stochastic model of GNSS code pseudorange observations and position-fix calculation based on GPS example. It has been
developed for simulated GPS shipborne receivers interconnected to the ECDISs in physical and virtual reality ship simulators.
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Title: A simulation method for the determining the minimum pull of tugs assisting in port manoeuvres
Author/Authors: Stanisław Gucma, Maciej Gucma, Rafał Gralak, Mateusz Bilewski, Bartosz Muczyński
Place of publication: Zeszyty Naukowe Akademii Morskiej w Szczecinie, 57(129)2019, pp. 49-55
Year: 2019
Keywords: port manoeuvring, simulation of ship movement, manoeuvring safety, tug assistance, determination,
minimum safe pull
Abstract: The article presents a simulation method for determining the minimum safe pull of tugs assisting in port
manoeuvres. The method can be used to determine the relationship between the minimum safe pull, understood as the tension on the line, of the assisting tugs and the overall length, cargo capacity or net capacity of ships manoeuvring in
a given port under allowable hydrometeorological conditions. The method was verified through simulated tests of gas tankers’ entry, turning and berthing at the LNG terminal of Świnoujście.
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Title: Assessment of GNSS Position Integrity with the Use of Postprocessed EGNOS Data in the Area of Szczecin-Świnoujście Waterway
Author/Authors: Mateusz Bilewski, Paweł Zalewski
Place of publication: Annual of Navigation, vol.25/2018 , pp. 66-77
Year: 2018
Keywords: EGNOS, SBAS, integrity data, SISNET parser, CRC-24Q
Abstract: GNSS measurements can be supplemented by the information available in EGNOS system even if one has only GNSS receiver that is not processing Satellite-Based Augmentation Systems data.
The article describes how to obtain the variances of ranges to the satellites used for positioning when the final antenna position and satellites’ elevation and azimuths values are recorded. To verify how the resultant estimates of position error correspond to real errors the research based on GPS receiver was conducted.
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Title: A method for the approximation of oil binder fall trajectory
Author/Authors: Marcin Przywarty, Bartosz Muczyński, Mateusz Bilewski
Place of publication: Scientific Journals of the Maritime University of Szczecin
Year: 2018
Keywords: oil binders, oil spill handling, BioBind, natural experiment, sea operation, approximation
Abstract: The following paper presents a novel method for approximating the fall trajectories
of small, lightweight oil binders, used during oil spill clean-up operation at sea. Due to the weight, size and shape of the binders, the fall trajectory is highly dependent on the direction and strength of the wind, as well as the
rotations and positions of individual binders when dropped. Since a large quantity of tightly packed binders are dropped at once, it is highly inconvenient to calculate the precise trajectory of each binder when its exact
initial rotation and position inside the container are not known. The aim of this study is to predict the exact moment and position of the drop, as well as the oil binders’ spread, considering wind conditions, airplane velocity and height.
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DOI: 10.17402/264
Title: A kinematic method for the assessment of the safe parameters of a waterway bend
Author/Authors: Jan Dzwonkowski, Marcin Przywarty, Mateusz Bilewski
Place of publication: Scientific Journals of the Maritime University of Szczecin
Year: 2018
Keywords: kinematic method, safe parameters, waterway, simulation model, physically paths, simulation
Abstract: This paper presents an original kinematic method for the assessment of the safe parameters of waterway bends.The proposed method has been based on the analysis of the results obtained through the use of the developed simulation model which allowed for the examination of all the physically available paths of a ship’s centre of
gravity. The results of the simulation were divided into defined subsets that enabled the assessment of the safe parameters of waterway bends. This paper also presents the calculations that were carried out for the theoretical
reference bend.
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DOI: 10.17402/272
Title: Criteria of Accidental Damage by Ships Anchors of Subsea Gas Pipeline in the Gdańsk Bay Area
Author/Authors: Krzysztof Marcjan, Remigiusz Dzikowski, Mateusz Bilewski
Place of publication: TransNav - The International Journal on Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea
Transportation
Year: 2017
Keywords: Vessel’s Damage Consequences, Criteria of Accidental Damage, Ships Anchors, Subsea Gas Pipeline, Gdansk Bay Area, Pipeline, Underwater Infrastructure, Damage to the Pipeline
Abstract: This paper discusses issues of the accidental anchor damage to offshore subsea pipeline as one of the most
significant threat to underwater infrastructure. The density of vessel traffic over the pipeline between platform Baltic Beta and Wladyslawowo power plant has been analyzed. In order to determine the most common damages associated with
heavy ship traffic, the authors used the risk model for underwater infrastructure. For this purpose ships anchor equipment has been categorized and as the results the criteria of damage to the pipeline have been discussed.
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Author/Authors of Chapter 6.1: Parametryzacja systemu podejściowych dróg wodnych metodą CIRM (Centrum Inżynierii Ruchu Morskiego), strony 147-161.
Title of monograph: Inżynieria ruchu morskiego. Wytyczne do projektowania morskich dróg wodnych i portów oraz warunków ich bezpiecznej eksploatacji
Author/Authors : Stanisław Gucma, Jarosław Artyszuk, Mateusz Bilewski, Rafał Gralak, Lucjan Gucma, Maciej Gucma, Krzysztof Marcjan, Wojciech Ślączka, Paweł Zalewski
Place of publication: Wydawnictwo Akademii Morskiej w Szczecinie
Year: 2017
Keywords: morskie drogi wodne, wymiarowanie morskich dróg wodnych, eksploatacja statków, przepustowość dróg wodnych, analiza ryzyka
Abstract: Inżynieria ruchu morskiego jest dyscypliną zajmującą się jakościowym i ilościowym opisem ruchu jednostek pływających na akwenach ograniczonych w aspektach bezpieczeństwa nawigacji i efektywności żeglugi. Opracowywane metody i procedury inżynierii ruchu morskiego znalazły szerokie zastosowanie przy projektowaniu morskich dróg
wodnych, portów, statków oraz warunków ich bezpiecznej eksploatacji. Projektowanie w inżynierii ruchu morskiego utożsamiane jest z następującymi podstawowymi zadaniami:
• optymalizacja parametrów budowanych i modernizowanych
systemów morskich dróg wodnych;
• określenie warunków bezpiecznej eksploatacji statków na
drogach wodnych;
• optymalizacja parametrów statków przewidzianych do eksploatacji na określonych drogach wodnych. Opisane w książce metodologia i metody projektowania różnego rodzaju dróg wodnych ich systemów oraz promów morskich zostały opracowane w oparciu o odpowiednie rozwiązania stosowane w inżynierii ruchu morskiego. Metody te bazują na modelach deterministycznych i probalistycznych procesu ruchu statków, modelowaniu matematycznym i symulacji
komputerowej ruchu statków na morskich drogach wodnych.
ISBN 978-83-60584-71-2
Author/Authors of Chapter: The Visual System in a DP Simulator at Maritime University of Szczecin, str. 221-224.
Title of monograph: Marine Navigation. Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation
Author/Authors: P.Zalewski, R.Gralak, B.Muczynski, M.Bilewski
Place of publication: Taylor & Francis Group
Year: 2017
Keywords: DP, Unity
Abstract: The paper presents the visual system designed in Maritime University of Szczecin in conformance to the Nautical Institute’s requirements of Dynamic Positioning (DP) simulator class B. The specific functionalities and
capabilities of this visual system connected to a DP advanced trainer of Kongsberg K-Pos type has been described.
ISBN 978-1-138-29762-3
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1201/9781315099132
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Title: Conception of EGNOS Integrity Data Utilization in ENC Systems
Author/Authors: Mateusz Bilewski, Paweł Zalewski
Place of publication: TransNav - The International Journal on Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation, Vol. 10 No.3, pp. 389-393
Year: 2016
Keywords: Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), EGNOS, Electronic Chart Display and Information System (ECDIS), Marine Vessel Protection Area (MVPA), Electronic Navigational Charts (ENC), Full Mission Bridge Simulator (FMBS), Integrity
Abstract: The paper presents the processing of EGNOS integrity data received either directly from the satellite network or the Sisnet internet relay. Relationship between the individual frames in EGNOS messages has been described. Usefulness of these data was indicated by the three examples. In the first example data form EGNOS was used to compare integrity parameters and the calculated position error. In further examples the simulated position with error and calculated integrity parameters were implemented together. The results were presented in two ways: with use of
dedicated program which presents only ship contours (the one not covering GNSS uncertainty and the one covering this uncertainty called Marine Vessel Protection Area) and as a layer in existing ECDIS.
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Title: Application of Markov chains to a navigator visual attention model
Author/Authors: Bartosz Muczyński, Maciej Gucma, Mateusz Bilewski
Place of publication: Zeszyty Naukowe Akademii Morskiej w Szczecinie, vol. 46(118)2016, pp. 95-100
Keywords: navigation, eye tracking, usability studies, stochastic model, marine simulator, Markov chains
Abstract: This paper presents initial results from a series of eye-tracking experiments on a Full Mission Bridge simulator.
The aim of this research was to develop a stochastic model of a navigator’s attention distribution during their navigational watch. Such model could be used as a tool for workload and usability studies for navigators and navigational
equipment interfaces. A structure of the model is discussed together with the evaluation of Markov chains as a main modelling tool. Initial results are presented and discussed. It is suggested that 1st order Markov chains are not
fully applicable for this problem. A combination of the 1st and higher-order Markov chains will be applied in the next stage of research.
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Title: Application of ultrasonic distance sensors for measuring height as a tool in unmanned aerial vehicles with a stabilized position in the vertical plane
Author/Authors: Mateusz Bilewski, Grzegorz Putynkowski
Place of publication: Zeszyty Naukowe Akademii Morskiej w Szczecinie, vol. 46(118)2016, pp. 17-21
Year: 2016
Keywords: netduino, UAV, ultrasonic distance sensors, height measurement, arduino, raspberry Pi
Abstract: The paper presents a review of ultrasonic sensors. Attention is focused on the possibility of using such sensors to keep an unmanned aerial vehicle at a constant altitude above the surface. Such a task requires filtered and unfiltered signals, so that the ground level can be distinguished even when obstacles are present. Three selected sensors were
tested. The possibility of connecting these sensors to external devices was also studied. The potential of the individual sensors and of a set of sensors is discussed. The study showed that the best solution is to use a set of three
ultrasonic sensors. Alternatively, a sensor with both unfiltered and filtered measurement was proved to be an adequate option.
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journals.eu/handle/123456789/1246