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Control Application to Marine Engineering

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Marine Science and Engineering".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2021) | Viewed by 7753

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Prof. Dr. Young-Bok Kim

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Department of Smart Robot Convergence and Application Engineering, Pukyong National University, Busan 48513, Republic of Korea
Interests: motion control; ship berthing system; dynamic positioning system design and application; vibration control
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Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue focuses on control system design and application for marine systems. The specific subject dealt with is the dynamics analysis and control system design of marine systems, including vessel motion control for stable navigation and positioning, control problems on unmanned surface and underwater vehicles, propulsion system control and optimization for energy saving, control and measurement systems for autonomous ship, hybrid propulsion system for vessels, and automation technologies for offshore and onshore plants, as well as other control applications in marine systems.

Any articles made from academia and industry are welcome. This Special Issue aims to advance the field of control technology on marine engineering and related fields.

Prof. Dr. Young-Bok Kim
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • Control theory and application
  • Measurement system for marine system
  • Vessel motion control
  • Unmanned surface ship and underwater vehicle
  • Power propulsion system control and optimization
  • Offshore and onshore system control and application
  • Autonomous system design and application

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Model-Free High Order Sliding Mode Control with Finite-Time Tracking for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles
by Josué González-García, Néstor Alejandro Narcizo-Nuci, Luis Govinda García-Valdovinos, Tomás Salgado-Jiménez, Alfonso Gómez-Espinosa, Enrique Cuan-Urquizo and Jesús Arturo Escobedo Cabello
Appl. Sci. 2021, 11(4), 1836; https://doi.org/10.3390/app11041836 - 19 Feb 2021
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Several strategies to deal with the trajectory tracking problem of Unmanned Underwater Vehicles are encountered, from traditional controllers such as Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) or Lyapunov-based, to backstepping, sliding mode, and neural network approaches. However, most of them are model-based controllers where it [...] Read more.
Several strategies to deal with the trajectory tracking problem of Unmanned Underwater Vehicles are encountered, from traditional controllers such as Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) or Lyapunov-based, to backstepping, sliding mode, and neural network approaches. However, most of them are model-based controllers where it is imperative to have an accurate knowledge of the vehicle hydrodynamic parameters. Despite some sliding mode and neural network-based controllers are reported as model-free, just a few of them consider a solution with finite-time convergence, which brings strong robustness and fast convergence compared with asymptotic or exponential solutions and it can also help to reduce the power consumption of the vehicle thrusters. This work aims to implement a model-free high-order sliding-mode controller and synthesize it with a time-base generator to achieve finite-time convergence. The time-base was included by parametrizing the control gain at the sliding surface. Numerical simulations validated the finite-time convergence of the controller for different time-bases even in the presence of high ocean currents. The performance of the obtained solution was also evaluated by the Root Mean Square (RMS) value of the control coefficients computed for the thrusters, as a parameter to measure the power consumption of the vehicle when following a trajectory. Computational results showed a reduction of up to 50% in the power consumption from the thrusters when compared with other solutions. Full article
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Stability and Manoeuvrability Simulation of a Semi-Autonomous Submarine Free-Running Model SUBOFF with an Autopilot System
by Yu-Hsien Lin, Yu-Ting Lin and Yen-Jun Chiu
Appl. Sci. 2021, 11(1), 410; https://doi.org/10.3390/app11010410 - 4 Jan 2021
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On the basis of a full-appendage DARPA SUBOFF model (DTRC model 5470), a scale (λ = 0.535) semi-autonomous submarine free-running model (SFRM) was designed for testing its manoeuvrability and stability in the constrained water. Prior to the experimental tests of the SFRM, a [...] Read more.
On the basis of a full-appendage DARPA SUBOFF model (DTRC model 5470), a scale (λ = 0.535) semi-autonomous submarine free-running model (SFRM) was designed for testing its manoeuvrability and stability in the constrained water. Prior to the experimental tests of the SFRM, a six-degree-of-freedom (6-DOF) manoeuvre model with an autopilot system was developed by using logic operations in MATLAB. The SFRM’s attitude and its trim polygon were presented by coping with the changes in mass and trimming moment. By adopting a series of manoeuvring tests in empty tanks, the performances of the SFRM were introduced in cases of three sailing speeds. In addition, the PD controller was established by considering the simulation results of these manoeuvring tests. The optimal control gains with respect to each manoeuvring test can be calculated by using the PID tuner in MATLAB. Two sets of control gains derived from the optimal characteristics parameters were compared in order to decide on the most appropriate PD controller with the line-of-sight (LOS) guidance algorithm for the SFRM in the autopilot simulation. Eventually, the simulated trajectories and course angles of the SFRM would be illustrated in the post-processor based on the Cinema 4D modelling. Full article
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