Control Applications in Marine Systems 1998

Chapter headings and selected papers: Ship Autopilots. Batch adaptive yaw-roll controllable autopilot (J.S. Park, K. Ohtsu). Ship Propulsion and Power Systems. Emissions and performance tradeoffs for advanced marine diesel propulsion (A. Stefanopoulou, R. Smith). Dynamic Positioning Systems for Ships. Positioning of semi-submersibles with roll and pitch damping (A.J. Sorensen, J.P. Strand). Position Mooring Systems for Ships. Dynamics of a turret-FPSO and shuttle vessel due to current (H.M. Morishita, B.J.J. Cornet). Rudder-Roll Control Systems. Quantitative analysis and design of a rudder roll damping controller (G. Hearns, M. Blanke). Maneouvering and Tracking Control Systems. Improved fuzzy autopilot for track-keeping (Z. Vukić et al.). Marine Navigation Systems I. Vehicle and mission control of the SIRENE underwater shuttle (P. Oliveira et al.). Underwater Vehicles. Adaptive neural-net controller system for underwater vehicle (K. Ishii, T. Ura). High-Speed Crafts. The decoupled cushion control in ride control systems for air cushion catamarans (D. Bertin et al.). Modeling and Identification of Marine Vessels. Bayesian estimation of directional wave spectra based on ship motions (T. Iseki, K. Ohtsu). Marine Navigation Systems II. A new collision-avoidance-supporting-system and its application to coastal-cargo-ship "Shoyo Maru" (K. Kose et al.). Software Architecture. Trends in real-time communication networks onboard ships (J.D. Nielsen et al.). Risk Assessment and Fault Handling. ANN-based nonlinear time series models in fault detection and prediction (T. Tang et al.). Optimization in Marine Systems. Opimization control for fuel consumption of a ship propulsion system with CPP using decoupling and LMI approach (Y.-B. Kim et al.). Author index.