Hahn, Axel; Gollücke, Volker; Buschmann, Carsten; Schweigert, Sören
(Scientific Journals Maritime University of Szczecin, Zeszyty Naukowe Akademia Morska w Szczecinie,
)
“Safe voyage from berth to berth”: This is the goal of all e-Navigation strains driven by new technologies,
new infrastructures, and new organizational structures on bridge, on shore, as well as in the cloud. To
facilitate these efforts suitable engineering and safety/risk assessment methods are required. Understanding
maritime transportation as a sociotechnical system allows the usage of system-engineering methods.
Simulation-based test beds for verification and validation (V +V) of e-Navigation technologies are important
methods to obtain functional safety and reliability. The modeling and simulation toolset HAGGIS is a cosimulation
system for the evaluation of e-Navigation concepts and systems. It provides a maritime traffic
simulator and a physical world (n-body) simulator and services for finding rare events of failures. HAGGIS is
accompanied by the physical test bed LABSKAUS, which implements a reference port and waterways. This
paper describes an integrated and seamless approach for developing new e-Navigation technologies starting
with virtual simulation-based safety assessment and ending in physical real-world demonstrations. It gives an
overview of the actual test bed and introduces requirements, concepts and elements of HAGGIS and
LABSKAUS, which are joined in the e-Maritime Integrated Reference Platform (eMIR) test bed.