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Vol: 57(71) No: 2 / June 2012        

Optimal and Fault Tolerant Control Strategy for Ship Stabilization
Catalin Bara
Department of Automatic Control and Computers, ”Politehnica” University of Bucharest, 313 Splaiul Independentei Street, 060042 Bucharest, Romania, e-mail: catalin.bara@gmail.com
Mihai Cornoiu
Department of Automatic Control and Computers, ”Politehnica” University of Bucharest, 313 Splaiul Independentei Street, 060042 Bucharest, Romania
Dumitru Popescu
Department of Automatic Control and Computers, ”Politehnica” University of Bucharest, 313 Splaiul Independentei Street, 060042 Bucharest, Romania, e-mail: dpopescu@indinf.pub.ro


Keywords: ship stabilization, mathematical modeling, optimal command, fault tolerant command

Abstract
This paper tackles the problematic of ship stabilization using an optimal and fault tolerant control strategy. The control strategy uses optimal amounts of resources to stabilize the ship, during the loading and unloading operations on docked vessels. A mathematical model linking the ship’s positioning and orientation with the forces and moments exerted upon the hull is required in order to develop the control strategy for the ship’s stabilizing ballast systems. The strategy is designed using graph theory concepts, taking into account the ballast system’s topology, we can generate an optimal command sequence in respect to minimum energy consumption and tolerance to faults.

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