@article{Popowniak_2025,
	author = {Popowniak, Natalia},
	title = {Determination of the Optimal Route in a Defined Environment for a Vessel},
	journal = {TransNav, the International Journal on Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation},
	volume = {19},
	number = {4},
	pages = {1075-1080},
	year = {2025},
	url = {./Article_Determination_of_the_Optimal_Route_Popowniak,76,1593.html},
	abstract = {The desire to minimise costs and increase reliability are driving change in the industry. The most optimal solutions exclude the human factor and instead introduce process automation. The first autonomous units are already sailing around the world, but this is a relatively new and very broad topic, so there is still a considerable area for research. The known control systems for ships are already well developed and proven in practice. The author of this paper aims to find an algorithm for determining the trajectory of a ship's course, so that an autonomous point-to-point voyage would be possible in conjunction with control systems. For this purpose, they chose four path planning methods: Hibrid A*, Rapidly-exploring Random Tree, Bidirectional RRT and Motion Planning Networks. The selected methods were pre-tested in a familiar environment. Simulation results for different settings were compared with each other to find the optimal path.},
	doi = {10.12716/1001.19.04.03},
	issn = {2083-6473},
	publisher = {Gdynia Maritime University, Faculty of Navigation},
	keywords = {}
}