The problem of developing a practical autopilot for all-weather steering in high speed merchant ships is analyzed and broken into 4 smaller problems: Specification of realistic models for the elements involved; identification of ship model parameters; development of a suitable adaptive control algorithm for the nonlinear stochastic system comprising the ship, its steering engines and the seaway disturbance model; and finally, a review of the developed algorithms with the objective of eliminating nonessential computations thus improving the computational efficiency.


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    Title :

    Improvement in Steering Control for Merchant Ships


    Publication date :

    1976


    Size :

    72 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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