Real-time tracking system for a moored oil tanker: A Kalman filter approach

• Type: Chapter or Part of a Book
• Date: 2013

Authors

Paulo Malheiros (Author) FEUP; Paulo Rosa Santos (Author) FEUP; José Gonçalves (Author) Other; Paulo Costa (Author) FEUP; António Paulo Moreira (Author) FEUP; Fernando Veloso Gomes (Author) FEUP; Francisco Taveira Pinto (Author) FEUP

Book

Title: Advances in Sustainable and Competitive Manufacturing Systems

1º Edition

Pages: 749-760

ISBN: 978-3-319-00556-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-00557-7

Publisher: Springer Publishing

Indexing

Scopus - 2 Citations

Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology

CORDIS: Technological sciences

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-00H-0DB

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-00557-7_62

Abstract (EN): This paper presents a tracking system developed to study the behavior of an oil tanker moored at the Berth ‘‘A’’ of the Leixões Oil Terminal, Porto, Portugal. A brief description of the local environmental conditions and the existing operational conditions at that oil terminal are presented. Due to extreme outdoor working conditions a Kalman filter was implemented to ensure the robustness and reliability of the obtained measurements. Tests were performed in laboratory on a physical model of a moored oil tanker at a scale 1/100. The results were compared with a commercial motion capture system installed in laboratory. The presented measurement system was developed as part of the DOLPHIN project that aims to study the behavior of moored ships in harbors. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2013.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 11