Abstract In this paper, a tool able to support the sailing yacht designer during early stage of design process has been developed. Quadratic and cubic Rational Bézier curves have selected describe main defining hull yacht. The adopted approach is based upon definition set parameters, say length water line, beam waterline, canoe body draft some dimensionless coefficients according traditional wa...

A number of techniques have been developed in recent years for the analysis and design of controllers which are robust with respect to structured complex uncertainty. In particular the complex synthesis procedure has been successfully applied to a number of engineering problems. However the presence of real parametric uncertainty in the problem description substantially complicates matters, so ...

We have developed an interactive computer-aided design program that supports mechanical design of devices fabricated in surface micro-machining processes. The program automates kinematic analysis via a novel configuration space computation code, performs real-time simulation, and supports functional parametric design. Designers can visualize system function under a range of operating conditions...