IJME 505

Paper Title: An Optimized Energy-Efficient Path Following Algorithm For Underactuated Marine Surface Ship Model

Authors

Haitong Xu and C Guedes Soares Centre for Marine Technology and Ocean Engineering (CENTEC), Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Summary  

An optimized path following guidance law is proposed for path-following of an underactuated surface ship. The main purpose of the proposed guidance law is to make a marine vessel travel with more energy efficiency. A combined feedback and feedforward controller is used for the heading control. The feedforward term is designed based on the well-known Nomoto model, whose parameters are estimated using least-square support vector regression. In order to achieve optimal operation of a marine vessel, a global optimization algorithm is employed to search the regularization factors, which are the trade-off between the total cross-track errors and total control energy. The simulation studies are carried out to demonstrate the performance of the proposed guidance law. The proposed method is an effective and practical guidance law and provide an optimal option for marine navigator.

Reference

Transactions RINA, Vol 160, Part A4, International Journal Maritime Engineering, Oct - Dec 2018 

DOI Number

DOI No: 10.3940/rina.ijme.2018.a4.505

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