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SimNav is a simulator of ship piloting for port and river navigation. It puts together in an integrated system a set of programs running models of the physical phenomenons involved in a ship movement.
These physical models compute at any time the ship position according to the environmental conditions (wind, currents, bank effects) and to the orders given by the student pilot. A virtual model (in the 3D graphic meaning) of the simulated ship is embedded in a 3D virtual model of the geographic site studied. The student pilot give steering and engine orders in order to have the ship following a “good” trajectory.
SimNav uses a cluster of “PC” like machines, in which each machine is dedicated to a particular task. SimNav includes also cooperative input from the professional end-users: Pilots and Authority from Le Havre and Paris.
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Vayssade, M., Pourplanche, A. (2003). A Piloting SIMulator for Maritime and Fluvial Navigation: SimNav. In: Dongarra, J., Laforenza, D., Orlando, S. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2840. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39924-7_92
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