Ship Motion Control - Course Keeping and Roll Stabilisation Using Rudder and Fins (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer London
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Advances in Industrial Control
Release date:	October 2010
First published:	2005
Authors:	Tristan Perez
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	300
Edition:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005
ISBN-13:	978-1-84996-978-9
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Technology: general issues > Technical design > General Books > Professional & Technical > Mechanical engineering & materials > Mechanical engineering > General Books > Professional & Technical > Mechanical engineering & materials > Production engineering > General Books > Professional & Technical > Other technologies > Marine engineering > Offshore engineering Books > Professional & Technical > Electronics & communications engineering > Electronics engineering > Automatic control engineering > General Promotions
LSN:	1-84996-978-7
Barcode:	9781849969789

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