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Route Planning for Vessels Based on the Dynamic Complexity Map

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Regarding aiming at multiple mobile objects in a complex water traffic–navigation environment, the chapter puts forward a route-planning method based on the complexity map. First, a Complexity Map was established according to the theory of complexity measurement. Then, combined with the A* algorithm, the actual cost was modified by making use of the distribution of the complexity values. Meanwhile, to reduce the distance of the whole voyage and avoid the local minimum in the process of path-finding, the Euclidean distance from the current point to the target was set to estimate heuristic cost. In addition, by using the standardization method, the value of complexity and distance became dimensionless. Finally, considering the ship dimensions, a channel-boundary constraint was added. The experimental results show that in the case of satisfying the ship dimensions, the best path is close to the shortest route and avoids all the high complex areas.

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This work was supported by the National Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51679180) and Double First-Rate Project of WUT; the National Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51579204) and Double First-Rate Project of WUT; and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2016M602382).

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Du, Z., Huang, L., Wen, Y., Xiao, C., Zhou, C. (2018). Route Planning for Vessels Based on the Dynamic Complexity Map. In: Popovich, V., Schrenk, M., Thill, JC., Claramunt, C., Wang, T. (eds) Information Fusion and Intelligent Geographic Information Systems (IF&IGIS'17). Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59539-9_8

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