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A Study on the Minimum Safe Distance between Two Vessels in Confined Waters

  • Lee, Chun-Gi;Mun, Seong-Bae;Jeong, Tae-Gwon;Jeong, Yeon-Cheol;Gong, Gil-Yeong;Lee, Jun-Ho
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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    • 2013.10a
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    • pp.56-57
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    • 2013
  • This paper is mainly concerned with the interaction effects between two vessels and sidewall with a mound. Experimental study on hydrodynamic forces between ship and sidewall with a mound was already shown in the previous paper, measured by varying the distances between ship and sidewall. The ship maneuvering simulation was conducted to find out the minimum safe distance between vessels, which is needed to avoid sea accident in confined waters.

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Sentinel Lymph Node Navigation Surgery for Early Gastric Cancer: Is It a Safe Procedure in Countries with Non-Endemic Gastric Cancer Levels? A Preliminary Experience

  • Neto, Guilherme Pinto Bravo;Santos, Elizabeth Gomes Dos;Victer, Felipe Carvalho;Neves, Marcelo Soares;Pinto, Marcia Ferreira;Carvalho, Carlos Eduardo De Souza
    • Journal of Gastric Cancer
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.14-20
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    • 2016
  • Purpose: Early diagnosis of gastric cancer is still the exception in Western countries. In the East, as in Japan and Korea, this disease is an endemic disorder. More conservative surgical procedures are frequently performed in early gastric cancer cases in these countries where sentinel lymph node navigation surgery is becoming a safe option for some patients. This study aims to evaluate preliminary outcomes of patients with early gastric cancer who underwent sentinel node navigation surgeries in Brazil, a country with non-endemic gastric cancer levels. Materials and Methods: From September 2008 to March 2014, 14 out of 205 gastric cancer patients underwent sentinel lymph node navigation surgeries, which were performed using intraoperative, endoscopic, and peritumoral injection of patent blue dye. Results: Antrectomies with Billroth I gastroduodenostomies were performed in seven patients with distal tumors. The other seven patients underwent wedge resections. Sentinel basin resections were performed in four patients, and lymphadenectomies were extended to stations 7, 8, and 9 in the other 10. Two patients received false-negative results from sentinel node biopsies, and one of those patients had micrometastasis. There was one postoperative death from liver failure in a cirrhotic patient. Another cirrhotic patient died after two years without recurrence of gastric cancer, also from liver failure. All other patients were followed-up for 13 to 79 months with no evidence of recurrence. Conclusions: Sentinel lymph node navigation surgery appears to be a safe procedure in a country with non-endemic levels of gastric cancer.

Development of Safe Navigation Contents for Aging Seafarer in Tug-barge Transportation (고령 예부선 운항자를 위한 안전운항 교육 콘텐츠의 개발)

  • Kim, Hong-Tae;Chang, Hea-Jung;Kim, Hye-Jin
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.35 no.5
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    • pp.351-358
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    • 2011
  • Recently, tugs and barges have become larger in size and increased in number. Also, most of tugs and barges are more than ten-years old. Total number of marine accident has been decreased, whereas that of accidental happening in tug-barge transportation has not been decreased. The statistics of marine accidents in 2010 shows that tug-barge accidents increased rapidly compared with those of 2009. The cause of accidental happening in tug-barge transportation is a quality of tug-barge operator the labour serious shortage of crew. This study is to give or suggest the various educational contents considering old age of crew and navigational environment for safe navigation in tug-barge transportation.

Satellite Navigation Systems, As The Development Of Digitalization Of The Marine Corridor

  • Vorokhobin, Igor;Burmaka, Igor;Ivanov, Oleksandr;Perepechayev, Sergiy;Naboka, Ivan;Kulakov, Maksym
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.21 no.11
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    • pp.241-247
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    • 2021
  • In the article, an analysis of the factors was carried out, which injected into the efficiency of the function of navigation systems in the minds of unimportance. Carrying out analyzes allowing for the visibility of relevant direct adjustments to the effectiveness of the function Inertial navigation systems in the minds of non-value. The designation of the navigation system was assigned to a complex of navigation systems on ships processing of the vector of navigation parameters, so that they can be victorious in the control systems of the ship's collapse, and the safety of floating is safe.

Development of a System for Transmitting a Navigator's Intention for Safe Navigation

  • Hong, Taeho
    • International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.130-135
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    • 2014
  • For the past three decades, ship-to-ship collision accidents have steadily increased on the coast of South Korea by about 20% annually. Marine accidents have become more likely and more devastating in areas with increasing marine traffic and rising numbers of high-speed ships. Over 30% of the marine accidents in South Korea are concentrated in spring, since Korea's coast is often covered in dense fog at this time of the year. Fog is generated when a large temperature range exists within a day, and this daily temperature range has increased due to abnormal weather conditions. This research proposed a system for transmitting a navigator's intention utilizing electronic methods. A navigator's intention was expressed on the electronic navigation chart for easier understanding of the surrounding situation, and the effectiveness of the system was verified through practical tests.

Pedestrian Detection and Tracking Method for Autonomous Navigation Vehicle using Markov chain Monte Carlo Algorithm (MCMC 방법을 이용한 자율주행 차량의 보행자 탐지 및 추적방법)

  • Hwang, Jung-Won;Kim, Nam-Hoon;Yoon, Jeong-Yeon;Kim, Chang-Hwan
    • The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.113-119
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    • 2012
  • In this paper we propose the method that detects moving objects in autonomous navigation vehicle using LRF sensor data. Object detection and tracking methods are widely used in research area like safe-driving, safe-navigation of the autonomous vehicle. The proposed method consists of three steps: data segmentation, mobility classification and object tracking. In order to make the raw LRF sensor data to be useful, Occupancy grid is generated and the raw data is segmented according to its appearance. For classifying whether the object is moving or static, trajectory patterns are analysed. As the last step, Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method is used for tracking the object. Experimental results indicate that the proposed method can accurately detect moving objects.

The Safe Manoeuvring of a Ship in Following and Quartering Seas

  • 고옥덕
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Navigation
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.23-27
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    • 1999
  • When a ship is running in following and quartering seas and on a crest with the ship′s length being nearly the same as the wave length, ship′s stability will be lost most; "T" shape crests with highly concentrated energy will appear during the process of transformation from irregular waves to regular ones, and the ship may be under continuous impact of large waves for a long period of time; Synchronism will also appear when the ship′s natural period of rolling and period of encounter are close to each other. For safe navigation, proper stability should be well ensured, proper speed and course chosen with speed under 1.8L1/2 kn (L is the ship′s length), initial listing avoided, special attention paid to steering.

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A Study on Obstacle Detection for Mobile Robot Navigation (이동형 로보트 주행을 위한 장애물 검출에 관한 연구)

  • Yun, Ji-Ho;Woo, Dong-Min
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1995.11a
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    • pp.587-589
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    • 1995
  • The safe navigation of a mobile robot requires the recognition of the environment in terms of vision processing. To be guided in the given path, the robot should acquire the information about where the wall and corridor are located. Also unexpected obstacles should be detected as rapid as possible for the safe obstacle avoidance. In the paper, we assume that the mobile robot should be navigated in the flat surface. In terms of this assumption we simplify the correspondence problem by the free navigation surface and matching features in that coordinate system. Basically, the vision processing system adopts line segment of edge as the feature. The extracted line segments of edge out of both image are matched in the free nevigation surface. According to the matching result, each line segment is labeled by the attributes regarding obstacle and free surface and the 3D shape of obstacle is interpreted. This proposed vision processing method is verified in terms of various simulations and experimentation using real images.

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A New Approach to the Evaluation of Collision Risk using Sech Function (Sech 함수를 이용한 새로운 충돌위험도 평가법)

  • Jeong, Tae-Gweon
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.103-109
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    • 2003
  • Evaluating the risk of collision quantitatively plays a key role in developing the expert system of navigation and collision avoidance. This study analysed the existing methods of appraising the collision risk, examined the problem that are intrinsic to them, and developed a new approach to its evaluation by using the sech function as an alternative to them. This paper applied the new method in appraising the collision risk and suggested how to decide the safe range of ownship's action.

A Study on Traffic Supporting System Enhancing the Safe Passage under Sea Bridge for Towing Vessels (예부선의 해상교량 안전통항을 위한 안전운항지원시스템 구축에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Yun-Sok;Yun, Gwi-Ho;Park, Young-Soo;Kim, Jong-Sung;Cho, Ik-Soon
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.71-78
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    • 2007
  • Towing vessels have carried out the important role and service in the maritime industry construction, such as port and sea bridge construction, fairway dredging and sea reclamation etc. Furthermore, tugboat takes the largest portion in number of vessel at the domestic registry and barges as big as the general merchant vessel, which are getting specialized and larger, are in operation. In spite of the increase of marine accidents under this situation, there has been no proper measure for the safe navigation of tugboat in the aspect of a nation. This paper aims to propose the measure for the safe navigation of tugboat according to the frequent marine accident of tugboat with sea bridge. Therefore, we show an example of the sailing schedule and operation checklist based on the analysis of statistics and precedent of marine accident and the investigation of the actual operation state of tugboat in the aspect of a contract of carriage and a personnel setup, which should be checked by the operator of tugboat, to pass through sea bridge safely and propose the safe traffic supporting system based on electronic chart system to improve the safe navigation of tugboat.

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