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Ship Motion Control

Course Keeping and Roll Stabilisation Using Rudder and Fins

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  • © 2005

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Authors:
  1. Tristan Perez

    1. Centre for Ships and Ocean Structures (CeSOS), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
      Marine Technology Centre, Trondheim, Norway

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  • Shows the reader the results of applying modern control methods to a problem that has been open in research for twenty years
  • Presents the reader with a good idea of what is realistically achievable in the control of ship stabilization and where design effort can be applied most productively
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Advances in Industrial Control (AIC)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXI
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  2. Introduction to Ship Motion Control

    Pages 1-14

  3. Ship Modelling for Control

    1. Environmental Disturbances

      Pages 17-44

    2. Kinematics of Ship Motion

      • T. Perez, T.I. Fossen
      Pages 45-58

    3. Ship Kinetics

      • T. Perez, T.I. Fossen
      Pages 59-92

    4. Control Surfaces (Actuators)

      Pages 93-109

  4. Introduction to Ship Roll Stabilisation

    1. Ship Roll Stabilisation

      Pages 113-126

    2. Ship Motion Performance

      Pages 127-142

  5. Performance Limitations in Feedback Control with Application to Ship Roll Stabilisers

    1. Linear Performance Limitations

      Pages 145-175

    2. Constrained Performance Limitations

      Pages 177-190

  6. Control System Design for Autopilot with Rudder Roll Stabilisation and Fin Stabilisers

    1. Previous Research in Control of Rudder Roll Stabilisation and Fin Stabilisers

      Pages 193-205

    2. Constrained Control via Optimisation

      Pages 207-220

    3. Control System Design for Autopilots with Rudder Roll Stabilisation

      Pages 221-250

    4. Constrained Control of Fin Stabilisers

      Pages 251-263

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 265-300
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About this book

engineers into a single volume whilst concentrating on two important research control design problems: autopilots with rudder-roll stabilization and fin and combined rudder-fin stabilization. He has been guided by some of the leading marine control academics, in particular Mogens Blanke and Thor Fossen; indeed Chapters 3 and 4 on kinematics and kinetics of ship motion are jointly authored with Professor Fossen. There are some 240 cited references – an invaluable resource for interested readers. The volume is likely to appeal to a wide range of readers who will each be able to extract something different from the various parts of the monograph. Part I has some four chapters on the modelling fundamentals including kinematics, dynamics and actuators. Part II is a very useful survey of the ship roll stabilization problem and how ship roll performance is measured and assessed. This clearly motivates the human necessity for roll-reduction and roll stabilization. Parts III and IV move on to the control systems aspects of the various stabilization designs. Valuable material here includes a study of system performance limitations as caused by the presence of non-minimum phase characteristics and actuator saturation. Chapter 10 has an interesting historical review of these marine control problems stretching back some thirty-years into the 1970s.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Centre for Ships and Ocean Structures (CeSOS), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway

    Tristan Perez

  • Marine Technology Centre, Trondheim, Norway

    Tristan Perez

About the author

Tristan Perez has a strong interest in the area of dynamic modelling nad control which has been focussed towards marine applications since his Ph.D. This book is the culmination of five years of research effort which has already given rise to the publication of refereed journal papers and professional magazine articles. He has also had industrial experience, working in a shipyard on the area of seakeeping (ship performance). The book is written with knowledge of the user’s point of view because of this experience.

Doctor Perez transferred from the well-known and respected control group at The University of Newcastle, Australia to the Centre for Ships and Ocean Structures at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in June 2004.

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