Step-wise stowage planning of roll-on roll-off ships transporting dangerous goods

A Shortest Path Heuristic for Evaluating the Quality of Stowage Plans in Roll-On Roll-Off Liner Shipping

Rudder roll stabilization for ships

Advanced control algorithms using LQG and adaptive control techniques enable the design of an economically attractive alternative for conventional fin stabilizers and have proved to be robust during simulation experiments and full-scale trials. Abstract-This paper describes the design of an autopilot for rudder roll stabilization for ships. This autopilot uses the rudder not only for course kee...

ISI-Free Power Roll-Off Pulse

SUMMARY An ISI-free power roll-off pulse, the roll-off characteristic of which is tunable with one power parameter, is proposed. It is shown that the proposed pulse is advantageous in terms of the probability of error for pulse detection in the presence of a timing error among currently known good pulses, among which the raised cosine pulse, " better than " raised cosine pulse, and polynomial p...

Benchmark Study on Numerical Simulation Methods for the Prediction of Parametric Roll of Ships in Waves

The main results and conclusions of an international benchmark study on the performance of computer simulation codes for the prediction of parametric rolling of ships in waves are presented in this paper. The benchmarked codes have been reviewed on a comparative way with respect to the specified benchmark tests and available experimental data. The study ship, a containership, was investigated i...

Roll to Roll Processing of Ultraconformable Conducting Polymer Nanosheets

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