Smoothing Fast Ferry Vertical Motions: a Simulation Environment for the Control Analysis
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چکیده
Fast ships are of increasing importance. At high speed vertical accelerations can have negative effects. By means of submerged actuators vertical accelerations can be alleviated. A good control must be designed, to move these actuators in the most effective way. It is not easy to optimise this design. A simulation environment has been developed, for an easy study of control alternatives. The simulation has been developed in MATLAB and SIMULINK. It provides a set of windows for the display of the ship's behaviour under several sea states. The heart of the simulation is a set of models of the ship and actuators' dynamics, including non-linear phenomena. The paper describes the simulation parts and the use of the environment for control testing.
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