Abstract:

The urgent issue of developing virtual sites for modeling various simulations of security and safe navigation stemmed from several reasons. It is necessary to carry out navigation (full-scale) tests in real conditions to confirm the scientific research results in order to ensure safe navigation on several real marine features, for example, sea vessels, which seems to be quite difficult. Moreover, such full-scale tests may take too much time to prepare and / or restore a marine feature into an original situation. In addition, incidents that are likely possible on a real marine feature can have significant social and / or economic consequences. In this paper the researchers present the results of developing a virtual polygon to simulate safe ship navigation. The authors use software such as the Unreal Engine 4 physics engine, the Visual Studio programming environment, and 3DS MAX and Cinema 4D to design three-dimensional offshore facilities. The scholars outline program elements of the virtual polygon, illustrate their structure and correlation. The authors set an example of virtualizing a marine feature (a small fishing boat) and that of modeling wave and wind conditions that have an impact on maritime vessels.