The purpose of this paper is to examine the performance of fuzzy controller applied to a dynamic positioning system of ship by numerical simulation. By definition, dynamic positioning system is computer controlled system which uses the active thrusters to automatically maintain the position and heading of the ship. The proposed control scheme consist of low pass filter in cascade with three proportional derivative type fuzzy controller with Mamdani type inference scheme. Feed-forward compensation decoupling scheme is employed to reduce coupling between sway and yaw. Robustness of control scheme is assessed for Cybership II in presence of wave disturbances.
Robust Adaptive Fuzzy Control Using Genetic Algorithm for Dynamic Positioning System
