The increasing need to improve the efficiency and safety of the ship steering process has, in the recent years, stimulated the research and development of adaptive autopilots for surface ships. An adaptive autopilot is designed to optimize both course keeping and course changing under widely varying operational and environmental conditions - with minimum interference from the crew. To date, several different approaches to the design of adaptive autopilots have been proposed. These have resulted from recent developments in the field of automatic control, from new results in statistical identification and modelling of ship motions and from the significant progress in the field of microcomputers. This paper discusses some of these recently developed techniques and their suitability in relation to the ship steering process.


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    Title :

    Comparison of Various Adaptive Control Techniques Applied to Autopilot Design


    Contributors:
    A. Tiano (author) / E. Volta (author) / A. W. Brink (author)

    Publication date :

    1983


    Size :

    39 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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