Abstract-This paper presents Six-degrees-of-freedom ship simulation system which allows simulated ship handling under complicated environmental conditions and threat scenarios. This system simulates real-time six degrees of freedom ship motions (pitch, heave, roll, surge, sway, and yaw) under user interactions, and environmental conditions. The simulation system consists of a ship motion prediction system and a perception enhanced immersive virtual environment with greater ecological validity. This ship motion prediction system uses a few model parameters which can be evaluated by using standard ship maneuvering test or determined easily from databases such as Lloyd's register. This virtual environment supports multiple-display viewing that can greatly enhance user perception. Ecological environment for strong sensation of immersion is also developed. The virtual environment facilitates the incorporation of real world ships, geographical sceneries, different environmental conditions and wide range of visibility and illumination effects. This simulation system can be used to demonstrate ship motions, maneuvering tactics and assign focused missions to trainees and evaluate their performance. Trainees can use the simulation system to study at their own pace. Implementation and operational cost of this ship simulation system is only a fraction of the conventional training involving real ships.

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In this paper we focused on Modeling and Simulation of environmental disturbances for ocean Surface Vehicle. We developed ship simulation system for simulating ship motion in a virtual environment with respect to environment disturbances such as sea wave, wind and sea currents. This system simulates ship motions in six degrees of freedom, pitch, heave, roll, surge, sway, and yaw. This system is simple and responds in real-time to interactions and it is based on a mathematical ship model. The mathematical ship model is derived from the non-linear speed equations, Newton's laws, fluid dynamics and other basic physics. We use multivariable functions to model the ocean surface with superposition of sinusoid functions and the ship model requires fewer amounts of ship data and the mathematical ship model can be used with different types of ships and it can be used in real time virtual reality applications.

This paper presents the development of a realtime perception enhanced virtual environment for maritime applications which simulates real-time six degrees of freedom ship motions (pitch, heave, roll, surge, sway, and yaw) under user interactions, environmental conditions and various threat scenarios. This simulation system consists of reliable ship motion prediction system and perception enhanced immersive virtual environment with greater ecological validity. This virtual environment supports multiple-display viewing that can greatly enhance user perception and we developed the ecological environment for strong sensation of immersion. In this virtual environment it is possible to incorporate real world ships, geographical sceneries, several environmental conditions and wide range of visibility and illumination effects. This system can be used for both entertainment and educational applications such as consol level computer games, teaching & learning applications and various virtual reality applications. Especially this frame work can be used to create immersive multi user environments.