ABSTRACT

The current control strategy adopted for Royal Navy warship manoeuvring does not attempt to account for the interactive behaviour which inherently exists between the roll and yaw dynamics. Previous work has highlighted the potential use that can be made of a rule-based control strategy approach which may be employed to overcome the problems of interaction. As an extension to this basic approach, it has been proposed that a self-organising rule-based controller may be usefully applied to the task.