Control Applications in Marine Systems 2001: A Proceedings Volume from the IFAC Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 18-20 July 2001 Book

	Enhanced Maritime Safety Through Diagnosis and Fault Tolerant Control	1
	A New Approach Towards Designing Ship Motion Control Systems	21
	An Improved Numerical Model for the Study of Controlled Ship Motions in Extreme Following and Quartering Seas	27
	Ship Stability Monitoring by Motion Frequency Analysis	39
	The Analysis of a Ship Fuzzy Domain in a Restricted Area	45
	Automatic Ship Berthing Using Parallel Neural Controller	51
	An Electronical Aid for Manoeuvring Ships in Restricted Waters	59
	Design of Automatic Collision Avoidance System Using Fuzzy Inference	65
	Autopilot Designed with Fuzzy Set Theory	71
	Fault-Tolerant Control Based on Adaptive Neural Network	77
	Neural Networks for System Identification of Coupled Ship Dynamics	83
	Modelling and Control of Towed Marine Seismic Streamer Cables	89
	Non-Linear Semi-Submersible Positioning System Design Using H[subscript [infinity]] Controller	95
	Methods of Optimal Ship Routing for Weather Perturbations	101
	Assisted Dynamic Positioning System for a FPSO Based on Minimization of a Cost Function	107
	Positional Game Control of Ship in Collision Situations	113
	Research on Flexible Oscillating Fin Propulsion System and Robotic Fish	119
	Observer-Based FDI for Gain Fault Detection in Ship Propulsion Benchmark - A Geometric Approach	125
	A Nonlinear State-Space Model of Diesel Propulsion Plant Operation Using Neural Nets	131
	Marine Engine Room Monitoring and Control System for Simulating Real Processes on a Ship	137
	A 2-D Visual Servoing Technique for Underwater Vehicle Station Keeping	143
	Self-Tuning Position and Force Control of an Underwater Hydraulic Manipulator	149
	Docking Techniques and Evaluations Trials of the Swimmer AUV	155
	Predictive Control and Dynamic Planning of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle	161
	AUVS' Dynamics Modeling, Position Control, and Path Planning Using Neural Networks	167
	The Manoeuvring Characteristics on Tug-Towed Ship Systems	173
	Study on a Decoupling Controller for Ship Harbour Manoeuvres	179
	Concept of a Modern Manoeuvre Prediction System for Ships	185
	On a Ship Track-Keeping Controller with Roll Damping Capability	191
	Classification and Detection of Changes in the Hydroacoustic Signals	197
	On the Design of Alerts for Future Platform Management Systems	203
	Neural Manoeuvre Detection of the Tracked Target in ARPA Systems	209
	Enhanced Neural-Network Modelling for Process Fault Diagnosis	215
	In Pursuit of Lean Manning: Ship Automation and the Value of Simulation	221
	Genetic Algorithm Optimisation of Oil Tanker Control Systems	227
	Genetic Method of Optimization of Evacuation Ways in Cases the Fire Growth at Ferryboat	233
	A Genetic Algorithm for Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Route Planning in Ocean Environments with Complex Space-Time Variability	237
	Modelling and Control of a Trawl System in the Transversal Direction	243
	On the Design of an IGV-Based Servo System for Air Cushion Vessels	249
	Simulation Model of the Shiphandling Training Boat "Blue Lady"	255
	Experimental Study of Controlled Flaps and T-Foil for Comfort Improvement of a Fast Ferry	261
	A Simulation Tool for a Fast Ferry Control Design	267
	Decreasing of the Motion Sickness Incidence by a Multivariable Classic Control for a High Speed Ferry	273
	Control Code Generator Used for Control Experiments in Ship Scale Model	279
	A Research on Motion Smoothing of Fast Ferries	285
	A Sensor Fusion Scheme for Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Localization in Cable Following	291
	Control of Limit Cycles for Underwater Vehicle Systems Using Describing Functions	297
	Combined Trajectory Tracking and Path Following for Underwater Vehicles	303
	O[superscript 2]CA[superscript 2]: A New Hybrid Control Architecture for a Low Cost AUV	311
	AUV Sliding Mode Autopilot Optimisation Using Genetic Algorithms	317
	Shipboard System Diagnostics and Reconfiguration Using Model-Based Autonomous Cooperative Agents	323
	Wave Spectrum Correction with the Ship's Speed and the Incidence Angle	331
	On Board Artificial Stable Platform System Free from Roll and Pitch Motions	337
	Inertance Control of Underwater Installations	345
	Ship Autopilot Tuning Using the Vishnegradskii Aizerman Diagram	351
	Adaptive Self-Tuning PID Control Algorithm for a Yacht	357
	High Performance PI(D) Controller on Ship Steering with a Conditional Reset Windup	363
	Design of PID Controllers for Ship Course Keeping Using Approximations of H[subscript [infinity]] Solutions	369
	Predictive PID Control for Ship Autopilot Design	375
	Ship Control Technology; A US Navy Perspective	381
	On Global Model Based Observer Designs for Surface Vessels	389
	Model Identification of a Low-Speed UUV	395
	The Study of H[subscript [infinity]] Control theory on Ship Lift Feedback Fin Stabilizer	401
	On-Line Trajectory Planning in Collision Situations at Sea by Evolutionary Computation-Experiments	407
	Zones of Uncontrollability Resulting from Ship-Ship Interactions in Confined Waters	413
	Optimization of the Course in the Ship's Movement by Input-Output Linearization	419
	A Fuzzy Fault Tolerant Control Scheme for an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle	425
	Execution Control of Robotic Tasks for UUVs	431
	Multiple Models Control of a Remotely Operated Vehicle: Analysis of Models Structure and Complexity	437
	Fuzzy Clustering Methods as Techniques for Identifying Control Strategies for an Underwater Vehicle	445
	Feature-Related Acoustic Guidance of Unmanned Underwater Vehicles	451
	Polynomial H[subscript 2]-Optimization of Sampled-Data Ship Control Systems in Continuous Time	457
	The Preliminary Study of Fin and Rudder Multivariate Hybrid Control System - Advanced Rudder Roll Stabilization System	461
	How Much Autonomy? IPS Control System - A Case Study	467
	A Problem and Solution of the Motion Control System	473
	An H[subscript [infinity]] Controller with Feedforward for Yacht Course Keeping	479
	Practical Aspects of Ride Control Systems for High Speed Ferries	485
	An Optimal Control Approach to Preventing Marine Diesel Engine Overloading Aboard Karel Doorman Class Frigates	493
	A Parallel MLPN Model with EKF-Based On-Line Learning Algorithm	499
	Relay-Based Process Identification in the Frequency Domain	505
	Optimization of Program Tracks for Research Ship	511
	Implementation of a Real-Time Target Tracking Behaviour Using Video Sensors	517
	Algorithms for the Ship Trajectory Planning and Its Tracking in the Collision Avoidance Process	523
	Author Index	531