15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
MULTIOBJECTIVE CONTROL OF FLAPS AND T-FOIL IN HIGH-SPEED SHIPS
S. Esteban, B. Andrés-Toro, E. Besada-Portas JM. Girón-Sierra, JM. de la Cruz
Departamento de Arquitectura de Computadores y Automática
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
28040 Madrid, España

Fast sea transportation of passengers must considered safety and comfort requirements. Due to waves, there are heaving and pitching motions. These motions originate sea-sickness and can have negative effects on the ship. By means of submerged actuators, vertical motions can be smoothed. This paper considers the real case of a fast ferry with a T-foil and flaps. These actuators should move to counteract the effect of each wave. This is a control problem that also has to consider cavitation and possible fatigue of the actuators’ system. In consequence there is a multiobjective optimization problem, controlling a non-linear system., A Multiobjective Genetic Algorithm is designed and applied to the case. The research obtains satisfactory results.
Keywords: marine systems, ship control, multiobjective optimisations, control applications
Session slot T-Mo-M12: Ship Control I/Area code 8c : Marine Systems