ON THE TRACK-KEEPING PERFORMANCE OF A CABLE-SHIP

A cable-ship is required to have the performance to keep its course during laying the submarine, optical fibre cable.The paper deals with an automatic track-keeping control system of a cable-ship during laying and burying of the submarine cable by means of a plough burying machine, developed by the optimal regulator theory. In order to find the effective and practical parameters for track-keeping control the course stability analysis is examined. Furthermore the manoeuvring characteristics of a cable ship are discussed by a simulation study on the viewpoint of track-keeping control.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • MARSIM & ICSM 90, Intl. Conference, Marine Simulation and Ship Manoeuvrability, held Tokyo, Japan 4-7 June 1990, Proceedings, p.467 [8 p., 1 tab., 9 fig.]
• Authors:
  • Kakizaki, S
  • TANAKA, S
  • Qing, H
• Publication Date: 1990

Language

• English

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Maneuverability; Ship simulators
• Uncontrolled Terms: Cable ships
• Old TRIS Terms: Coursekeeping; Ship controllability
• Subject Areas: Marine Transportation; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00698221
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: British Maritime Technology
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 14 1995 12:00AM