| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/R04973/01 |
| Title: |
Comparison Study of Integrated Navigation and Propulsion Control System Designs For Marine Applications |
| Principal Investigator: |
McGookin, Dr EW |
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| Department: |
Electronics and Electrical Engineering |
| Organisation: |
University of Glasgow |
| Scheme: |
Fast Stream |
| Starts: |
30 June 2001 |
Ends: |
29 March 2003 |
Value (£): |
62,985
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| Transport Systems and Vehicles |
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The proposed research programme will involve a comparison study of various types of control methodologies applied to the integrated propulsion and navigation control systems for ships. The particular control laws selected for investigation cover the major groups of control law ie linear, non-linear, optimal, adaptive and state feedback. Each control method will be used to design a control system for governing the simulated propulsion and heading dynamics of the vessels being considered. This design stage will be carried out on a PC environment using continuous time simulations to evaluate the performance of the systems. Once the designs are working satisfactorily in terms of stability and performance robustness, they shall be implemented on an Applied Dynamics Real-Time Simulator (RTS) facility at the University of Glasgow. This will allow the performance of each controller design to be evaluated in a real-time environment. Both types of simulation (ie continuous and real-time) are to be executed with and without environmental disturbances (eg waves) being considered. These disturbances and the real-time simulations will allow the controllers to be evaluated in a realistic sailing environment with all the considerations that are required for application of these designs to a real vessel.
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