RT Journal Article
T1 Ship-course modeling and control using the SIMSCAPE physical modeling environment.
A1 Fernández-de-Cañete-Rodríguez, Francisco Javier
A1 Martín-Aguilar, Jesús
K1 Barcos - Métodos de simulación
K1 Optimización de las trayectorias
AB Simulation is an important tool for evaluating the design of a ship-course control system. The object-oriented modelingsupports the physical modeling of a multi-domain dynamical system by using a hierarchical acausal structure, as comparedto block diagrams or differential equation-based causal structures. In this paper we describe the use of theSIMSCAPE simulation environment for the physical modeling-based design of the course control system of a ship. Thecomplete model has been implemented by using this physical modeling approach whereby dynamic system equations aretransformed into a diagram of interconnected physical blocks so as to represent in this way the true structure of themodeled system. The performance of the course control of the ship model was analyzed by simulation in light of theexisting hypothesis and indirect validation tests previously performed with operational data. The results obtained byusing sequences of course-changing maneuvers with varying disturbances serve to demonstrate the usefulness of thephysical modeling-based approach with high accuracy and small computational cost as compared to the classical differentialequation-based or the adimensional block-oriented diagrams. This methodology can be easily extended to otherengineering fields provided that a suitable set of SIMSCAPE physical libraries can be used (electrical, mechanical, hydraulics,thermal,...). In fact, the ship-course control system model here developed represents an interesting benchmark inthe field of engineering systems to get insight on the physical modeling approach under SIMSCAPE or even underMODELICA, despite its specificity to marine systems.
PB SAGE
YR 2020
FD 2020-12-15
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/29830
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/29830
LA eng
NO Fernandez de Canete J, Martin-Aguilar J. Ship-course modeling and control using the SIMSCAPE physical modeling environment. SIMULATION. 2021;97(4):247-266.
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 4 mar 2026