Wind Effects on Ship Maneuver for Parallel Course Change

Wave Effects on Free Running Ship in Standard Zigzag Maneuver

Cerebral palsy litigation: change course or abandon ship.

The cardinal driver of cerebral palsy litigation is electronic fetal monitoring, which has continued unabated for 40 years. Electronic fetal monitoring, however, is based on 19th-century childbirth myths, a virtually nonexistent scientific foundation, and has a false positive rate exceeding 99%. It has not affected the incidence of cerebral palsy. Electronic fetal monitoring has, however, incre...

Approximate Dynamic Programming for Ship Course Control

Dynamic programming (DP) is a useful tool for solving many control problems, but for its complexity in computation, traditional DP control algorithms are not satisfactory in fact. So we must look for a new method which not only has the advantages of DP but also is easier in computation. In this paper, approximate dynamic programming (ADP) based controller system has been used to solve a ship he...

Effects of Ship Motion on Ship Maneuvering in Waves

Ship maneuvering performance is typically predicted in calm water conditions. This provides very valuable information at the initial ship design stage. However, since the ship always sails in waves, the maneuvering performance of the ship in seaway may be significantly different from calm water condition. Therefore, if the effect of waves and the corresponding motion responses can be included i...

Influence of Ship Motion Nonlinearities on the Course Controller Design

Since a ship yard usually provides insufficient data for developing a ship control system, the course and track controller design is based upon a Nomoto model determined with a Clarke estimation of hydrodynamic derivatives. Several ships examined show a poor system performance with a course control derived from these models besides parameter identification problems of adaptive control concepts....