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Implementation of the Ship’s Autopilot in the CPDev Environment

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Ship autopilots can be divided into conventional, only capable of maintaining a given course (heading), and advanced, which can additionally keep the ship on the “path” (track) connecting the given navigation points along the route. The article presents the structure of a prototype autopilot of a ship implemented in the CPDev environment and the formulas allowing to determine the settings of the course controller (PID) and the track controller (PI) in the cascade control. For each of them, single design parameters were adopted to define the dynamics of the closed control loop. These rules were applied in the software of the autopilot prototype, created in cooperation with a Dutch company designing control and visualization systems for ships.

The author would like to thank the co-authors of the autopilot software and the entire CPDev community, in particular Leszek Trybus, Bartosz Trybus, Jan Sadolewski, Dariusz Rzonca, Andrzej Stec and Marcin Jamro.

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This project is financed by the Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of Poland within the “Regional Initiative of Excellence” program for years 2019–2022. Project number 027/RID/2018/19, amount granted 11 999 900 PLN.

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Świder, Z. (2022). Implementation of the Ship’s Autopilot in the CPDev Environment. In: Szewczyk, R., Zieliński, C., Kaliczyńska, M. (eds) Automation 2022: New Solutions and Technologies for Automation, Robotics and Measurement Techniques. AUTOMATION 2022. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1427. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-03502-9_14

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