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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2019
Ship and Ocean Industries R&d Center, New Taipei, TW;
Feng-Yeang Chung, New Taipei, TW;
Ching-Chin Tu, New Taipei, TW;
Chun-Han Chu, New Taipei, TW;
Min-Hsiang Hsu, New Taipei, TW;
SHIP AND OCEAN INDUSTRIES R&D CENTER, New Taipei, TW;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a vessel navigation system and navigation method thereof, the method includes: (a) driving a vessel to sail along a sailing path including at least two nodes, the at least two nodes include a first node and a second node connected by a first line segment; (b) generating a first tracking point on the first line segment when a distance between the vessel and the first node being less than a first length, and driving the vessel to sail according to the first tracking point; (c) generating a second tracking point on the first line segment when a distance between the vessel and the first tracking point being less than the first length, and driving the vessel to sail according to the second tracking point; and then completing the navigation of the sailing path by repeating the step (b) and step (c) until the vessel passes through each node.