Design of automatic thruster assisted mooring systems for ships

This paper addresses the mathematical modelling and controller design of an automatic thruster assisted position mooring system. Such control systems are applied to anchored floating production offloading and storage vessels and semi-subs. The controller is designed using model based control with a...

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Main Authors: Jan P. Strand, Asgeir J. Sørensen, Thor I. Fossen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Norwegian Society of Automatic Control 1998-04-01
Series:Modeling, Identification and Control
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Online Access:http://www.mic-journal.no/PDF/1998/MIC-1998-2-1.pdf