Patent ID: 11897589
Assignee: nan
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 6:
7. The system of claim 1, wherein:
(i) wave making resistance maps that includes magnitudes of wave making resistance for the at least one follower vessel at multiple locations stored in non-transitory memory in the at least one processor;
(ii) a sequence comprises at least that of
(i) in the determining at least the direction and speed of the at least one lead vessel at a first time,
(ii) the determining where to position the at least one follower vessel in the at least one reduced wave-making resistance region of the wave making resistance maps, and
(iii) the determining of the second time at which the follower vessel is to be positioned in the at least one reduced wave-making resistance region,
(iv) the outputting the second time and position information; and

(iii) the at least one processor is configured to repeat the sequence at least one or more times at continuous or intermittent time intervals to continuously or intermittently track the at least one lead vessel and continuously or intermittently define the position and time for the at least one follower vessel at the at least one reduced wave-making resistance region associated with the at least one Kelvin wake wave generated by the at least one lead vessel.