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Sensitivity analysis and parametric identification for ship manoeuvring in 4 degrees of freedom

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The spiral test is simulated by using a ship manoeuvring mathematical model of 4 degrees of freedom. Based on the simulation data, sensitivity analysis using the direct method is implemented for the hydrodynamic coefficients in the mathematical model, and the mathematical model is simplified by omitting the coefficients of smaller sensitivity according to the sensitivity analysis results. 10°/10°, 20°/20° zigzag tests and 35° turning circle manoeuvre are simulated with the original and the simplified mathematical models. The comparison of simulation results obtained by the original and the simplified models shows the effectiveness of the sensitivity analysis and the validity of the simplified model. The hydrodynamic coefficients in the simplified model are then identified by using the least square support vector machines, with the training samples taken from the simulation data of 20°/20° zigzag test. 20°/20°, 10°/10° zigzag tests and 35° turning circle manoeuvre are predicted by using the identified hydrodynamic coefficients, and the predicted results are compared with the simulation results to demonstrate the validity and generalization performance of the identification method.

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This work is financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51279106) and the Special Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China (Grant No: 20110073110009).

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  1. School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Civil Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China

    Xue-Gang Wang, Zao-Jian Zou & Ru-Yi Ren

  2. State Key Laboratory of Ocean Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China

    Zao-Jian Zou

  3. Wuhan Second Ship Design and Research Institute, Wuhan, 430064, China

    Feng Xu

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Wang, XG., Zou, ZJ., Xu, F. et al. Sensitivity analysis and parametric identification for ship manoeuvring in 4 degrees of freedom. J Mar Sci Technol 19, 394–405 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00773-014-0277-y

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