• Journal of the Korean Society of Fisheries and Ocean Technology
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• v.59 no.2
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• pp.145-154
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• 2023

In this study, to control the heading angle of a ship, which is constantly subjected to various internal and external disturbances during the voyage, an LADRC (linear active disturbance rejection control) design that focuses more on improving the disturbance removal performance was proposed. The speed rate of change of the ship's heading angle due to the turn of the rudder angle was selected as a significant factor, and the nonlinear model of the ship's maneuvering equation, including the steering gear, was treated as a total disturbance. It is the similar process with an LADRC design for the first-order transfer function model. At this time, the gains of the controller included in LADRC and the gains of the extended state observer were tuned to RCGAs (real-coded genetic algorithms) to minimize the integral time-weighted absolute error as an evaluation function. The simulation was performed by applying the proposed GA-LADRC controller to the heading angle control of the Mariner class vessel. In particular, it was confirmed that the proposed controller satisfactorily maintains and follows the set course even when the disturbances such as nonlinearity, modelling error, uncertainty and noise of the measurement sensor are considered.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.12 no.9
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• pp.850-855
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• 2006

This is concerned with the development and design of automatic maneuvering system using Differential Global Positioning System(DGPS). To achievement of autonomous maneuvering controller for giant ship, first, we investigated automatic maneuvering controller using DGPS in motor car. The sensors are configured with DGPS and digital compass. We calculated velocity and steering angle of motor car based on sensor signal. To design the controller, we derived the bicycle model and developed critically damped controller. The critically damped controller can be tracing previously appointed position in the fastest time. We are used a laptop computer to realize and the control algorithm is programmed by visual basic software. The obtained experimental results from developed system show unmanned motor car is good tracing planed positions. Hence, the system is looking forward to use the autonomous maneuvering control fur giant ship.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Fisheries and Ocean Technology
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• v.49 no.1
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• pp.40-50
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• 2013

This study is aimed to find a control factor for the marine casualty of fishing vessel by using the risk quantitative method of marine casualty, and sequentially timed event analysis for the reason finding. The result is that collision, sinking, and capsizing took high risk need to be strongly controlled. And the accident reason and control factors distinguished are as follows. The 82.2% of collided fishing vessels have negligence of look out as a immediate cause, while it was judged that underlying causes were the characteristics of vessels and fishing method, lack of suitable complement, fatigue, the prejudice or ignorance on steering and sailing rules. So the control factors are; firstly needs educational control measures and in terms of systemic control approach expand the range of the certificate of competency more smaller tonnage.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.604-609
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• 2004

Recently, various studies had been made for automatic control system of small ships, in order to improve maneuvering and to reduce labor and working on board. To achieve efficient operation of small ships, it had been accomplished to rapid development of automatic technique, but the ship operation had been more complicated because of the need to handle various gauges and instruments. To solve these problems, there are examples to be applied to the speech information processing technologies which is one of the human interface methods in the system operation of ship, but the implementation of definite system is still incomplete. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to implement the control system for ship steering using the voice recognition module.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Navigation
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.13-26
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• 1985

The purpsoe of automatic steering system is to keep the ship's course stable with the minimum course error and rudder angle, and there have been a number of studies as to the optimal design and adjustment of the autopilot. Recently, modern control theories are being used widely in analyzing and designing the system. When a ship is at sea, autopilot installed on the ship plays an important role, particularly in the respect of economic aspects, that is, when the design and the adjustment of adjustable parameters are not conducted perfectly, the amount of loss in energy and the extension of sailing distance become large. Therefore the optimal design and adjustment of a autopilot are very important. Though P.I.D type autopilots are widely spread and generally used in modern ships, the suitability and the adjusting method are not clarified. In this paper the authors considered the stabilaity and the economical efficiency of the P.I.D. type autopilot and investigated various facts which should be considered at the time of designing and using the P.I.D. type autopilot through the digital computer simulation.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Fisheries and Ocean Technology
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• v.54 no.4
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• pp.343-352
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• 2018

In this study, a motion control problem for the vessels towed by tugboats or towing ships on the sea is considered. The towed vessel looks like the barge ship, which is used for many purposes. In these vessels, basically, the power propulsion system is not installed but just towed by a towing vessel such as tugboats with ropes and wires. It means that the motions of towed vessel are basically dependent on the tracking route of towing boat. Therefore, in some cases, undesirable and unpredictable motions may be made by environmental factors such as wave, wind attack and so on. As a result, a collision accident with others may occur during maneuvering situation. Based on these facts, the authors try to encourage the steering performance of the towed vessel by using controllable rudders without any propulsion system. In this study, especially, a controllable vessel with three rudders is considered, and a mathematical model is induced for the future study. The model is described as surge, sway motion and inertia moment by following the general representation method for the surface ship.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.329-333
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• 2003

최근 전문가의 지식과 경험정보가 데이터베이스로 구축된 전문가 시스템의 지식 정보를 이용하여 안전하고 효율적인 선박운항이 가능한 지능형 선박 시스템에 관한 연구가 활발하게 진행되고 있다. 인공지능기법을 이용하여 보다 인간 친화적인 시스템을 구현하고, 음성인식기술을 이용하여 원격으로 선박 조타기를 제어하여 조업자의 부담경감 및 인원절감의 효과를 가져올 수 있는 선박 조종시스템의 개발이 절실하다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 PC를 기반으로 하여 일격으로 모형 선박의 조타기를 제어하는 시스템을 구축한다. 구체적인 연구방법으로는, 음성인식기술과 지능형 학습 기법을 바탕으로 음성지시기반학습 시스템을 구축하고, 퍼지 조타수 조작모델을 구현하여 PC 기반 원격 제어시스템을 구축한다. 또한, 구축된 원격 조타제어시스템을 축소된 선박모형(Miniature Ship) 시스템에 적용하여 그 효용성을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.287-291
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• 2003

현대의 선박운항에 있어서 선내 노동의 경감과 운항의 안정성 및 경제성 확보를 위하여 선박 자동화 및 원격 조종화가 이루어지고 있다. 또한, 선박조종 및 작업제어를 위하여 컴퓨터를 이용한 통합제어 시스템에 관한 연구도 활발하게 진행되고 있다. 그러나 소형선박 빛 어선과 같은 환경에서의 지능형 시스템에 관한 연구는 많이 부족한 실정이다. 인공지능기법을 이용하여 보다 인간 친화적인 시스템을 구현하고, 음성인식기술을 이용하여 원격으로 선박 조타기를 제어하여 조업자의 부담경감 및 인원절감의 효과를 가져올 수 있는 선박 조종시스템의 개발이 절실하다. 본 논문에서는 PC를 기반으로 하여 원격으로 모형 선박의 조타기를 제어하는 시스템을 구축하였다. 구체적인 연구 방법으로는, 음성인식기술과 지능형 학습 기법을 바탕으로 음성지시기반학습 시스템을 구축하고, 퍼지 조타수 조작모델을 구현하여 PC 기반 원격 제어시스템을 구현하였다. 또한, 구축된 원격 조타제어시스템을 축소된 선박모형(Miniature Ship) 시스템에 적용하여 그 효용성을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.35-41
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• 2009

A waypoint tracking algorithm(WTA) is designed for Unmanned Surface Vehicle(USV) in which water-jet system is installed for propulsion To control the heading of USV for waypoint tracking, the steering nozzle of water-jet need, to be controlled. Firstly, target heading is calculated by using the position information of waypoints input from the land control center. Secondly, the command for the steering nozzle of water-jet is calculated in real time by using the heading and the rate-of-turn( ROT) from magnetic compass, In this study, in order to consider the drift angle due to external disturbance such as wind and wave, the course of ground( COG) can be used instead of heading at higher speed than a certain value, To test the performance of newly-designed WTA, the tests were carried out in actual sea area near Gwang-an bridge of Busan. In this paper, the sea trial test results from WTA are analyzed and compared with those from manual control and those from commercial controller.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.314-324
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• 2020

Due to the nonlinearity and environmental uncertainties, the design of the ship's steering controller is a long-term challenge. The purpose of this study is to design an intelligent autopilot based on Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) trained Radial Basis Function Neural Network (RBFNN) control algorithm. The newly developed free running model scaled surface vessel was employed to execute the motion control experiments. After describing the design of the EKF trained RBFNN autopilot, the performances of the proposed control system were investigated by conducting experiments using the physical model on lake and simulations using the corresponding mathematical model. The results demonstrate that the developed control system is feasible to be used for the ship's motion control in the presences of environmental disturbances. Moreover, in comparison with the Back-Propagation (BP) neural networks and Proportional-Derivative (PD) based control methods, the EKF RBFNN based control method shows better performance regarding course keeping and trajectory tracking.