• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.48 no.2
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• pp.116-124
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• 2024

Automatic docking of small planing ship is a critical aspect of maritime operations, requiring accurate prediction of motion states to ensure safe and efficient maneuvers. This study investigates the use of Artificial Neural Network (ANN) to predict motion state of a small planing ship to enhance navigation automation in port environments. To achieve this, simulation tests were conducted to control a small planing ship while docking at various heading angles in calm water and in waves. Comprehensive analysis of the ANN-based predictive model was conducted by training and validation using data from various docking situations to improve its ability to accurately capture motion characteristics of a small planing ship. The trained ANN model was used to predict the motion state of the small planning ship based on any initial motion state. Results showed that the small planing ship could dock smoothly in both calm water and waves conditions, confirming the accuracy and reliability of the proposed method for prediction. Moreover, the ANN-based prediction model can adjust the dynamic model of the small planing ship to adapt in real-time and enhance the robustness of an automatic positioning system. This study contributes to the ongoing development of automated navigation systems and facilitates safer and more efficient maritime transport operations.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.39 no.1
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• pp.32-44
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• 2015

In general, a series of ship steering motion is represented by the combination of translational motion and rotational motion of the ship. Especially, special-functioned ships such as large-scale cruises, ships for installing underwater optical cable, and diver ships must be able to reveal only a translational motion without the change of orientation. In this paper, a method to comprise an integrated control system based on the joystick as a command instrument for translational motion control is suggested. In order to realize the translational motion control system, several algorithms are suggested including the velocity command generation, the selection of motional variables, and the generation and tracking of reference inputs for the selected motional variables. A simulation bench is composed to execute simulations for several translational motion commands. At last, the effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by analyzing the simulation results.

• Proceedings of the Korea Committee for Ocean Resources and Engineering Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.241-244
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• 2006

In this paper, we suggest the high efficient control method based on general PI control law to control the refrigeration system of the ship effectively. In the variable speed refrigeration system, the capacity and the superheat are controlled by inverters and electronic expansion valves respectively for saving energy and improving cost performance. Thus, we propose decoupling model to eliminate the interfering at first. Next, we design PI controller to control capacity and superheat independently. Finally the control performance was investigated through some experiments. The experiments results show that the PI control design can obtain good control performance deal with the varied control reference and thermal load.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.43-47
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• 2002

선박 업계의 항해 인력부족 현상을 해결하기 위한 방법으로 선박의 지능화 및 자동화에 관한 연구가 활발히 진행중이다. 선박의 지능화 및 자동화를 위해 지능형 자율운항제어시스템(Autonomous Ship Control System using Intelligence Techniques)이 개발되고 있다. 지능형 자율 운항제어시스템은 선박운항에 있어 항해계획을 수립하고 현재의 선박운항 상태를 파악하여 선박을 적절히 제어하는 항해 전문가의 능력을 전산화 한 것이다. 지능형 자율운항시스템은 항해, 충돌회피, 선체유지, 자료융합, 운동제어, 통합 아키텍처 시스템으로 구성되어 있다. 선박 운동제어시스템은 상위 레벨의 고수준제어 요구치를 하위레벨의 저수준제어치로 변환하는 제어기이다. 본 논문에서 선박의 물리적 특성을 모방하기위해 Oldenburger 제어 이론에 기반한 선박 제어기를 설계하고, 설계된 제어기의 성능검정을 위해 선박시뮬레이터에서 다양한 시나리오를 바탕으로 시뮬레이션 한다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.1228-1229
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• 2011

A novel approach has been promoted for FNN ship controllers. An Electro-hydraulic governor has been widely adopted to the ship speed control of propulsion marine diesel engines for a long time, it was very difficult for Electro-hydraulic governor to regulate the speed of high power engine with long stroke at low speed and low load, because of the jiggling phenomena by rough fluctuation of rotating torque and the hunting phenomena by long dead time occurred in fuel combustion process in the engine cylinder. This paper provides an efficient way for improving control performance by FNN controller. An RBF neural network and GA optimization are employed in a fuzzy neural controller to deal with the nonlinearity, time varying and uncertain factors, the rule base and membership functions can be auto-adjusted by GA optimization. The parameters of neural network can be decreased by using union-rule configuration in the hidden layer of the network. The performance of controller is evaluated by the system simulation using simulink tools.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.645-652
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• 2003

A virtual vessel traffic control system is introduced to contribute to prevent a marine accident such as collision and stranding from happening. Existing VTS has its limit. The virtual vessel traffic control system consists of both data acquisition by satellite remote sensing and a simulation of traffic environment stress based on the satellite data, remotely sensed data And it could be used to provide timely and detailed information about the marine safety, including the location, speed and direction of ships, and help us operate vessels safely and efficiently. If environmental stress values are simulated for the ship information derived from satellite data, proper actions can be taken to prevent accidents. Since optical sensor has a high spatial resolution, JERS satellite data are used to track ships and extract their information. We present an algorithm of automatic identification of ship size and velocity. It lastly is shown that based on ship information extracted from JERS data, a qualitative evaluation method of environmental stress is introduced.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.483-484
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• 2010

Unit cabin means room, which is installed in the high value ship such as drill ship and FPSO, after pre-assembled. In order to develop the noise control design for a unit cabin, a variety of acoustic tests such as sound absorption, transmission, and radiated noise measurements were carried out by using the mock-up of living quarter. From the tests, it was found out that the combined noise level of a unit cabin could be dominated by the radiated noise from wall panel in low frequency range and the design guidelines for the noise control of unit cabin were fully established, such as the improvement of sound transmission loss between the cabin and corridor, and radiated cabin noise reduction.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.07a
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• pp.671-672
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• 2008

Hybrid intelligent technique is used in ship steering control. It can make full use of the advantage of all kinds of intelligent algorithms. This provides an efficient way for this paper. An RBF neural network and GA optimization are employed in a fuzzy neural controller to deal with the nonlinearity, time varying and uncertain factors. Utilizing the designed network to substitute the conventional fuzzy inference, the rule base and membership functions can be auto-adjusted by GA optimization. The parameters of neural network can be decreased by using union-rule configuration in the hidden layer of the network. The ship control quality is effectively improved in case of appending additional sea state disturbance. The performance of controller is evaluated by the system simulation using Matlab.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.132-137
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• 2003

This performance is motivated to develop a tracking antenna system for receive the satellite broadcasting signal in the coast sailing ship. Therefore, this system is made to small size, light weight and simple operation which is must to low cost system for popularization of small size ship and adaptive possibilities with useful on a ship in the coast using 1 axis Az-mount. The antenna mount structure is a compact size and easy operation to the Az-axis type which is operated by step motor. The antenna unit is a domestic made plate type of patch array and ship's moving detection is using the gyro sensor for ship's moving control. We are designed to algorithm, which walking is abreast for step track and ship's moving compensation. Ship's moving compensation is adapted to the closed loop control method by detection from gyro sensor. This system is consisted of micro processor, ADC, comparative amplifier, step motor driver, mount mechanism and algorithm. We have analysised the tracking performance of prototype on sailing ship board.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.1130-1137
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• 2003

This performance is motivated to develop a tracking antenna system for receive the satellite broadcasting signal in the coast sailing ship. Therefore, this system is made to small size, light weight and simple operation which is must to low cost system for popularization of small size ship and adaptive possibilities with useful on a ship in the coast using 1 axis Az-mount. The antenna mount structure is a compact size and easy operation to the Az-axis type which is operated by step motor. The antenna unit is a domestic made plate type of patch array and ship's moving detection is using the gyro sensor for ship's moving control. We are designed to algorithm, which walking is abreast for step track and ship's moving compensation. Ship's moving compensation is adapted to the closed loop control method by detection from gyro sensor. This system is consisted of micro processor, ADC, comparative amplifier, step motor driver, mount mechanism and algorithm. We have analysised the tracking performance of prototype on sailing ship board.