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Modeling and testing of hydrodynamic damping model for a complex-shaped remotely-operated vehicle for control

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In this paper, numerical modeling and model testing of a complex-shaped remotely-operated vehicle (ROV) were shown. The paper emphasized the systematic modeling of hydrodynamic damping using the computational fluid dynamic software ANSYS-CFX™ on the complex-shaped ROV, a practice that is not commonly applied. For initial design and prototype testing during the developmental stage, small-scale testing using a free-decaying experiment was used to verify the theoretical models obtained from ANSYS-CFX™, Simulation results are shown to coincide with the experimental tests. The proposed method could determine the hydrodynamic damping coefficients of the ROV.

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Cheng Chin. He is a lecturer in Newcastle University and was a lecturer in mechatronics engineering at Temasek Polytechnic in Singapore. He received the Ph.D in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Nanyang Technological University in 2008. He also has a M.Sc. of Advanced Control and Systems Engineering from University of Manchester in 2001 shortly after his B.Eng. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2000. His research interests are in the computer-aided modeling, analysis and control systems design of mechatronics systems.

Michael Lau. He is a senior lecturer in Newcastle University. He was an Associate Professor in School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He graduated with Ph.D from Aston University and both MSc and BEng from National University of Singapore. His interests are in active vibration control, modelling and control of underwater robotic vehicles and mechatronics system design.

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Chin, C., Lau, M. Modeling and testing of hydrodynamic damping model for a complex-shaped remotely-operated vehicle for control. J. Marine. Sci. Appl. 11, 150–163 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11804-012-1117-2

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