Surface ship fuel savings with an optimized autopilot

Approved for public release, distibution unlimited === In this thesis, the propulsion losses, which are caused by added drag due to steering of the ship, can be minimized by using an Adaptive Automatic Optimal Controller. It is shown in this thesis that an Adaptive Automatic Optimal Controller is ca...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Akinsal, Volkan
Other Authors: Thaler, George J.
Language:en_US
Published: 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10945/21567