| Ship Motion Control: Course Keeping and Roll Stabilisation Using Rudder and Fins Contributor(s): Perez, Tristan (Author) |
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ISBN: 1849969787 ISBN-13: 9781849969789 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $237.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Technology & Engineering | Electrical - Technology & Engineering | Mechanical - Technology & Engineering | Industrial Engineering |
| Dewey: 623.863 |
| Series: Advances in Industrial Control |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.00 lbs) 300 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
