The implementation of fixed rulebase fuzzy logic to the control of small surface ships

✍ Scribed by M.N. Polkinghorne; G.N. Roberts; R.S. Burns; D. Winwood

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 729 KB
• Volume: 3
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0967-0661
• DOI: 10.1016/0967-0661(95)00003-d

✦ Synopsis

For ship control, the Proportional plus Integral plus Derivative (PID) controllers remam common-place. However, increasingly new autopflot strategies, promising hi aher levels of robustaess and/or adaptive qualities, are being proposed as possible successors to the PlD. Fuzzy logic is a modem control technique which is ctmrently finding an increasing and diverse range of novel applications, both in its fixed.rulebase and intelligent forms. By means of full scale seatrials, a newly developed fuzzy logic autopilot is evaluated for both course-keeping and coursechanging, and a comparison made to its conventional equivalent.