Operator-Centered Enhancement of Awareness in Navigation (OCEAN)

海洋项目的方法是通过支持航海员比现在做得更好来帮助减轻航海事故。这种支持不仅涉及“现场”提高航行意识-包括海洋哺乳动物和浮动集装箱的存在-或改进规避操纵和其他缓解行动的性能。该项目将更深入和更广泛地确定并建议修改或改进可能导致事故发生的最相关因素：培训，技术，人为或组织因素，运营限制，流程和程序，商业压力或结构性问题，如规则和法规的缺陷。从实施的角度来看，OCEAN项目将开发新的设计方法和操作流程，并整合现有技术，以提供新的和改进的功能。一个关键的汇合点是由运营商进行的总体航行情况评估，该项目旨在提供一个综合的和专门设计的近场威胁和航行障碍的介绍。该项目的产出将包括一个规避机动代理，旨在与现有的船舶系统协同工作，不断评估与其他船舶，固定结构或其他威胁有关的搁浅或碰撞的航行安全，以及高级机动预测的可视化。海洋将建议建立一个欧洲航行危险基础设施，以收集、处理和分发有关海洋哺乳动物和浮动集装箱存在的数据。进一步的创新包括为即将出台和修订的海事通信国际标准提供投入，以及设计海事仪器和装置的实用方法，所有这些都将在综合情景中展示。

The OCEAN project approach is to contribute to the mitigation of navigational accidents by supporting the navigators to do an even better job than they do presently. Such support does not only relate to an ‘on-the-spot’ enhancement of navigational awareness – including the presence of marine mammals and floating containers – or an improved performance of evasive manoeuvring and other mitigating actions. The project will go both deeper and wider, to identify and suggest amendments or improvements in the most pertinent factors that may contribute to events becoming accidents: training, technical, human, or organisational factors, operational constraints, processes and procedures, commercial pressures or structural issues like shortcomings in rules and regulations. From an implementation perspective, the OCEAN project will develop new design methods and operational processes, as well as integrating existing technologies to provide novel and improved functionalities. A key convergence point is the overall navigation situation assessment made by the operator, and the project aims at providing an integrated and designed-for-the-purpose presentation of near-field threats and navigational hinderances. The project outputs will include an Evasive Manoeuvring Agent, intended to work in tandem with existing ship systems, continuously assessing navigational safety with respect to grounding or collision with other ships, fixed structures or other threats, and the visualization of advanced manoeuvring prediction. OCEAN will suggest the creation of a European Navigational Hazard infrastructure to collect, process and distribute data relating to the presence of marine mammals and floating containers. Further innovations comprise input to upcoming and revised international standards for maritime communications and practical methods to design maritime instruments and devices, all of which will be demonstrated in consolidated scenarios.