This paper describes the development of a five degree of freedom towed underwater vehicle designed for condition monitoring of undersea pipelines. Its innovative design, with 6 fins actuated by 5 motors adding heave and sway capabilities to the yaw, roll and pitch movements possible in traditional designs, is explained. The parameters influencing the stability and the design in general are anal...

Measurement of aircraft attitude is a necessary step for the autonomous control of the aircraft. Autonomous aircraft are useful for a range of military and civilian purposes. A method of very low computational complexity is presented that allows the pitch and roll angles of an aircraft to be measured onboard an unmanned aircraft from real-time video of the horizon. This method can be used for m...

Previously, we have looked at the stability augmentation system. This system can be seen as the inner loop of the aircraft control system. In this chapter, we focus on the outer loop: the control augmentation system. When we want to keep a certain pitch angle, velocity, roll angle, heading, or something similar, then we use the CAS. In this way, the pilot workload can be reduced significantly. ...

The article examines the features of the radar altimeter reflected signal modeling over the sea surface. The model operates at different wave heights, pitch and roll angels, speeds of the aircraft and widths of the antenna pattern. A brief description of the radio altimeter influencing factors is made. Modeling results are analyzed. The complex of hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation with the ...

Abstract. A heave compensation system is one of the absolutely necessary instruments to secure mining operation. The heave compensation system includes a heave compensated platform which is to compensate heave motion and a gimbaled platform which is to accommodate pitch and roll. The simulation of a nonlinear model based on fuzzy PID control is performed. The results show that the compensation ...

An important condition of any port-assembled floating offshore wind turbine concept is the de-ballasted transport stage. As hydrostatic and dynamic stability may vary greatly from operational condition, it needs to be carefully investigated in early stages design-phase. In this work, physical modelling OrthoSpar device was carried out determine roll pitch RAOs, as well load characteristics towi...

Abstract—Method for object motion characteristic estimation based on wavelet Multi-Resolution Analysis: MRA is proposed. With moving pictures, the motion characteristics, direction of translation, roll/pitch/yaw rotations can be estimated by MRA with an appropriate support length of the base function of wavelet. Through simulation study, method for determination of the appropriate support lengt...

Since the vehicle body of ultra-compact mobility is lightweight, there concern about degradation ride comfort due to vibration from road surface. There have been reports on active seat suspension as a means controlling for occupant, however only in vertical direction. In addition vibration, rotational directions such roll, pitch, and yaw also deteriorate comfort. Furthermore, it has reported th...

bubble columns are gas- liquid contactors that are widely used in chemical and bio- chemical industries. high mixing that result in high heat and mass transfer rates are amongst their advantages. heat transfer in a bubble column having a bundle of heaters investigated and the variation of heat transfer coefficient with variation in heaters pitch to diameter ratios in a bundle of heaters reporte...

For investigation and developing fundamental knowledge about how and why ships and structures behave in an ocean environment Norway started the Centre for Ships and Ocean Structures. One of the research topics of this centre of excellence is parametric roll resonance. Parametric roll resonance is a phenomenon that causes a roll motion to a ship due to longitudinal waves. This roll motion can be...