A Software Platform for Real-Time Assessment of Ship Maneuverability

In this paper we present a software platform dedicated to the maneuverability assessment of naval units, both on surface and submerged. The suggested platform exhibits such characteristics as real-time processing of ship track and heading data, off-line processing of post-processed DGPS data for increased accuracy and real-time calculation and graphical presentation of maneuvering performance evaluation results. The results of processing benchmark testing data are compared against results of similar software platforms and the correctness of calculations is verified along with the robustness of the proposed platform, making it suitable for testing any class of ship as opposed to other maneuverability assessment programs.