System and method for controlling docking for a marine vessel
AssigneeBrunswick Corporation
InventorsTrevor George, Brandon L. Tate
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Abstract
A method of controlling docking includes an imaging system configured to image an area around a marine vessel to generate image data and a control system. The control system is configured to receive a selected docking area, locate the selected docking area in the image data, locate at least one dock tie-off point along the selected docking area in the image data, identify an optimized docking location based on the selected docking area and the location of the at least one dock tie-off point, and generate a docking optimization action based on the optimized docking location.
Claims19
A method of controlling docking for a marine vessel, the method comprising:
- identifying a selected docking area;
- automatically controlling at least one marine drive to move the marine vessel relative to the selected docking area;
- with an imaging system on the marine vessel, imaging an area around the marine vessel to generate image data that includes at least one image of the selected docking area;
- locating at least one dock tie-off point along the selected docking area in the image data;
- identifying an optimized docking location based on the selected docking area and the location of the at least one dock tie-off point;
- determining at least one suggested tie-off pattern based on at least one of the selected docking area and the optimized docking location and the relative location of the dock tie-off points;
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- generating a tie-off display based on the at least one suggested tie-off pattern.
A system for controlling docking of a marine vessel, the system comprising:
- an imaging system configured to image an area around a marine vessel to generate image data;
- a control system configured to:
- locate a selected docking area in the image data;
- control at least one marine drive to move the marine vessel relative to the selected docking area;
- locate at least one dock tie-off point along the selected docking area in the image data;
- identify an optimized docking location based on selected docking area and the location of the at least one dock tie-off point;
- determine at least one suggested tie-off pattern based on at least one of the selected docking area and the optimized docking location and the relative location of the dock tie-off points;
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- generate a tie-off display based on the at least one suggested tie-off pattern.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.