Apparatus and method for controlling vessel deviating from anchorage

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9261880-B2
Application number	US-201414330230-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 14, 2014
Priority date	Dec 19, 2013
Publication date	Feb 16, 2016
Grant date	Feb 16, 2016

Abstract

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method that control a vessel deviating from an anchorage using wide-range sensor-based spherical trigonometry. In the method, vessels anchored in an anchorage are monitored. The anchorage is defined as a group, and the group of the anchored vessels is managed. Leaving of a vessel, needing to deviate from the anchorage, from the group is controlled. If a vessel recognized as a vessel identical to one that left the group requests anchoring after a predetermined period of time has elapsed, the anchoring-requesting vessel is controlled.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for controlling a vessel deviating from an anchorage, comprising:
monitoring vessels anchored in an anchorage;
defining the anchorage as a group, and managing the group of the anchored vessels;
controlling leaving of a vessel, needing to deviate from the anchorage, from the group; and
if a vessel recognized as a vessel identical to one that left the group requests anchoring after a predetermined period of time has elapsed, controlling the anchoring-requesting vessel,
wherein managing the group comprises:
when a new anchoring-requesting vessel desires to loin the group, performs an authentication procedure via exchange of preliminary information, and allowing the anchoring-requesting vessel to loin the group as a new group member;
determining whether the anchoring-requesting vessel that joined the group as the new group member corresponds to a previously registered vessel;
if the anchoring-requesting vessel does not correspond to a previously registered vessel, generating a group key pair corresponding to the anchoring-requesting vessel; and
encrypting the group key pair using a session key, and transferring the encrypted group key pair and the session key to the anchoring-requesting vessel.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein monitoring the anchored vessels is configured to monitor the anchored vessels using spherical trigonometry.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein monitoring the anchored vessels comprises:
calculating a distance from an initial anchorage location to each vessel located in an area of the anchorage;
if the vessel is moved in the anchorage, checking a latitude and a longitude of a moved location of the vessel, and extracting a travel distance based on the latitude and the longitude;
comparing the travel distance with the anchorage area, and determining whether results of the comparison fall within an error range;
if it is determined that the comparison results fall within the error range, determining whether anchor dragging of a corresponding target vessel that is the moved vessel occurs;
if it is determined that anchor dragging occurs, calculating a minimum turning radius of the target vessel caused by anchoring; and
checking distances from neighboring targets using the minimum turning radius, and if the distances fall outside the minimum turning radius, transferring a warning message to the corresponding target vessel.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein transferring is configured to transfer the warning message to the corresponding target vessel via Very High Frequency (VHF) communication.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein controlling the anchoring-requesting vessel comprises:
if the vessel recognized as the vessel identical to one that left the group requests anchoring, transferring a current session key and an anchoring request time to the anchoring-requesting vessel, using a public key/private key pair of the anchoring-requesting vessel; and
verifying results of decrypting the current session key using the private key in the anchoring-requesting vessel, and updating the session key based on results of verification.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein controlling the leaving of the vessel from the group is configured to control the leaving of the vessel from the group by verifying Maritime Mobile Service Identity (MMSI) of the vessel needing to deviate from the anchorage.

7. An apparatus for controlling a vessel deviating from an anchorage, comprising:
a monitoring unit for monitoring vessels anchored in an anchorage;
a group management unit for defining the anchorage as a group, and managing the group of the anchored vessels;
a leave-group control unit for controlling leaving of a vessel, needing to deviate from the anchorage, from the group; and
an anchoring control unit for, if a vessel recognized as a vessel identical to one that left the group requests anchoring after a predetermined period of time has elapsed, controlling the anchoring-requesting vessel, wherein
the group management unit is configured to, when a new anchoring-requesting vessel desires to join the group, perform an authentication procedure via exchange of preliminary information, and allow the anchoring-requesting vessel to loin the group as a new group member, and is configured to, if the anchoring-requesting vessel that joined the group as the new group member does not correspond to a previously registered vessel, generate a group key pair corresponding to the anchoring-requesting vessel.

8. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the monitoring unit monitors the anchored vessels using spherical trigonometry.

9. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the monitoring unit is configured to, if a vessel is moved in the anchorage, extract a travel distance using a latitude and a longitude of a moved location of the vessel, and if results of a comparison between the travel distance and an area of the anchorage fall within an error range, determine whether anchor dragging of a corresponding target vessel that is the moved vessel occurs.

10. The apparatus of claim 9 , wherein if it is determined that anchor dragging occurs, a minimum turning radius of the target vessel caused by anchoring is calculated, and distances from neighboring targets are checked using the minimum turning radius, and if the distances fall outside the minimum turning radius, a warning message is transferred to the corresponding target vessel.

11. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein when the warning message is transferred to the corresponding target vessel, Very High Frequency (VHF) communication is used.

12. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the leave-group control unit is configured to control the leaving of the vessel from the group by verifying Maritime Mobile Service Identity (MMSI) of the vessel needing to deviate from the anchorage.

Assignees

• Korea Electronics Telecomm

Inventors

• Seo Dae-Hee
• Kim Byung-Doo
• Kim Do-Hyeung
• Oh Seung-Hee
• Cho Kwan-Tae
• Choi Joong-Yong
• Kim Ju-Young
• Lee Byung-Gil
• Na Jung-Chan
• Cho Hyun-Sook

Classifications

• G05D1/0208 Primary

  dynamic anchoring · CPC title

• G08G3/00 Primary

  Traffic control systems for marine craft (marking of navigational route B63B22/16, B63B51/00) · CPC title

• B63B2021/009

  Drift monitors · CPC title