Head
Rafal Szłapczyński, Sc.D., Associate professor at GdańskTech
Research areas
- Modelling of a floating dock
- Modelling with NURBS surfaces
- Weather routing of sea-going vessels
- Power-driven vessels and sailboats
- Deterministic methods as well as metaheuristics
- Single-objective and Multiobjective optimization
- Planning and multiobjective optimization of collision-avoidance actions for ships – manned or autonomous (MASS)
- Artificial Neural Networks applied to:
- Monitoring heat-exchange in power plants
- Dynamic positioning systems for ships
- Multiobjective evolutionary algorithms and related metaheuristics
Recent major papers
- Niksa-Rynkiewicz T., Szewczuk-Krypa N., Witkowska A., Cpałka K., Zalasiński M. and Cader A. Monitoring Regenerative Heat Exchanger in Steam Power Plant by Making Use of the Recurrent Neural Network. Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing Research, Vol.11 (Issue 2), pp. 143-155, 2021. https://doi.org/10.2478/jaiscr-2021-0009
- Zalasiński M., Niksa-Rynkiewicz T., Cpałka K. Dynamic Signature Vertical Partitioning Using Selected Population-Based Algorithms. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12855. Springer, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87897-9_45
- Szlapczynski R., Szlapczynska J.: W-dominance: Tradeoff-inspired dominance relation for preference-based evolutionary multi-objective optimization, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation Vol. 63, 2021 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.swevo.2021.100866
- Szlapczynski R., Szlapczynska J.: A ship domain-based model of collision risk for near-miss detection and Collision Alert Systems, Reliability Engineering & System Safety, Vol. 214, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2021.107766
- Szlapczynska J., Szlapczynski R., Preference-based evolutionary multi-objective optimization in ship weather routing, Applied Soft Computing, Volume 84, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2019.105742
- Szłapczyński R., Krata P.: Determining and visualizing safe motion parameters of a ship navigating in severe weather conditions. Ocean Eng. 158, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2018.03.092
- Szlapczynski R., Krata P., Szlapczynska J.: Ship domain applied to determining distances for collision avoidance manoeuvres in give-way situations. Ocean Eng. 165, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2018.07.041
Recent research projects
- DigiFloDock - "A Floating Dock Digital Twin towards Efficient, Safer and Autonomous Docking Operations„; PolNor 2019, 2021-2024, head: Aleksander Kniat, PhD, assistant professor
- Developing a digital model for simulating automatic berthing and interactions between a ship and a dock
- Testing systems of automatic dock control
- Prediction of a berthing process (incident and threat avoidance)
- CADMUSS, „Collision Avoidance Domain-Method Used by Ships and aShore”; MarTERA (ERA-NET CO-FUND), 2020-2023, head: Rafal Szlapczynski, Sc.D., Associate professor
- ROUTING, „Ship Routing Accounting for Changeable Sea Conditions”; MarTERA (ERA-NET CO-FUND), 2018-2021, head: Rafal Szlapczynski, Sc.D., Associate professor