Abstract
In the future, it is expected that many intelligent functions such as an automatic collision avoidance function will be installed to ships for upgrading navigation safety and efficiency. For the sake of evaluating the effect of these functions, experiences of the use of the functions is essential. Based on the experiences, we can measure subjective evaluation on navigation safety and efficiency precisely and how these functions in fluency navigators and navigation, To make it possible to experience the use of the functions to subjects, we made a framework for introducing intelligent functions to a ship handling simulator. Then we introduced an automatic collision avoidance function, which controls all ships except own ship, to express reasonable marine traffic flow as an example of an intelligent function. To show the effectiveness of the function, we conducted a series of simulation runs using this function in Congested Sea Area. In this paper, after brief introduction of the automatic Collision Avoidance function and the framework, we introduce the results of simulation runs in Congested Sea Areas and discuss the effectiveness of the function.
