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Start date: 1993
MARINES is a testbed for assessing the use of software agents to assist an instructor using a marine simulator. The testbed has been developed in C++ using Object Oriented techniques and provides a typical simulator instructor station interface. Each ship in the simulation may be controlled manually or by a software agent. The agents presently provide automatic collision avoidance between any two ships using a subset of "The international regulations for preventing collisions at sea". Future work includes multiple ship situations and limited ship navigation preventing the ships from making dangerous deviations from their desired track. The overall aim of the project is to make the simulators easier for novice instructors to operate through the use of software agents.
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