Module overview
This module provides the fundamental concepts associated with the principles of manoeuvring and control theory, with a focus on vehicles operating on or below the air water interface. There is one assignment which integrates manoeuvring hydrodynamic data into the control of a marine vehicle.
Linked modules
Pre-requisite: SESS2015
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- Model or full scale trials to assess the manoeuvrability and controllability of marine vehicles operating in calm and/or restricted waters in accordance with codes of practice and industry standards.
- Manoeuvring theory based on fundamental principles and concepts providing an appreciation of the limitations of the theory as applied to hull and control surface design.
- Select and apply appropriate computational, experimental or analytical techniques to determine hydrodynamic data required in an assessment of directional stability.
- Apply basic methods of classical control system design such as root locus and phase lead-lag.
- The concept of stability concepts and effect of feedback control on sensitivity.
- The safe operation of a vessel through the development of stability criteria and their application.
- The principles of control theory through familiarising the students with various input/output descriptions of dynamic systems and frequency domain descriptions and dynamic analysis.
Learning Outcomes
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- M1 Through a series of example sheets, quizzes and exam questions derive and solve equations of motion for ships/ submarines, and control systems. C2 Through a series of example sheets, quizzes and exam questions relating to control and ship manoeuvring, assessing whether a control system is stable or a ship/ submarine is dynamically stable. C3 Through a series of example sheets, quizzes and exam questions, select and apply appropriate techniques to model the dynamic stability of a ship or submarine. Suitable techniques include empirical results, computational fluid dynamics and model experiments. C5 This is assessed through example sheets, quizzes and exam questions relating to applying IMO standards for ship manoeuvring and ITTC recommendations for model tests.
Syllabus
Description
Part A; 18 lectures on:
Ship Manoeuvring
- Body axes, translations and angular velocities
- Transformation of axes.
- General equations of motion in calm water.
- Linearised equations of symmetric motion.
- Linearised equations of antisymmetric motion.
- Fluid actions and slow motion derivatives.
- Measurements of slow motion derivatives (tow and rotating arm tests).
- Measurements of oscillatory coefficients (planar motion mechanism).
- Control surfaces and derivatives.
- Directional stability criteria (Routh-Hurwitz test functions).
- Details of types of stability.
- Manoeuvring trials (stability: pull out and spiral (Dieudonne)).
- Manoeuvring trials (control: circle and zig-zag (Kempf)).
- Effects of variables on design (speed, trim, draught, etc).
- Rudder actions and characteristics.
- Nomoto's equations, T-K parameters.
Part B; 18 lectures on:
Ship Control:
- Introduction to control including concepts of block diagrams, open and closed loop systems.
- Modelling of dynamic systems in time and S-domains including concepts of transfer functions and state space modelling techniques.
- Characteristics of dynamic systems including system response of 1st and 2nd order systems, performance metrics, system stability and concepts of poles and zeros.
- Control and analysis of dynamic systems including PID controllers, root locus plots and applications to marine vehicles.
Controllability of a marine vehicle. This assignment integrates Parts A and B, through the use of hydrodynamic derivatives developed in Part A for the control system design of a marine vehicle.
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Teaching methods include
- Lectures
- Tutorials focussed on example sheets
Learning activities include
- Directed reading/independent learning
- Example sheets for problem solving exercises
Type | Hours |
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Wider reading or practice | 10 |
Follow-up work | 33 |
Revision | 34 |
Preparation for scheduled sessions | 4 |
Practical classes and workshops | 3 |
Completion of assessment task | 30 |
Lecture | 36 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
General Resources
Resources and reading list. Available on blackboard
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Continuous Assessment | 30% |
Final Assessment | 70% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Set Task | 100% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Set Task | 100% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External