SHIP MONITORING AND CONTROL

This paper discusses the applicability of monitoring systems for improving ship control. After introducing some critical issues in the area of ship motion controlan analysis is presented concerning the choice of different architecture and algorithms with particular reference to the applicability of new methods capable to implement robustness and adaptivity features and to the software requirements for building up advanced ship monitoring and control systems. An examples of ship monitoring and control system actually under development at the Department of Information and Systems of the University of Pavia are presented