Title :
Methods for estimating vehicle transfer functions requiring only the geometric and inertia characteristics
Author :
Humphreys, Douglas E. ; Watkinson, Kenneth W.
Author_Institution :
Naval Coastal Systems Laboratory, Panama City, FL, USA
Abstract :
Progress toward the development of generally applicable methods for calculating vehicle transfer functions is presented. Such methods would allow control engineers with little knowleged in hydrodynamics to estimate the vehicle dynamics during the preliminary design phase.
Keywords :
Automotive engineering; Control system synthesis; Differential equations; Hydrodynamics; Laplace equations; Stability analysis; Taylor series; Testing; Transfer functions; Vehicles;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in the Ocean Environment, Ocean 72 - IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Newport, RI, USA
DOI :
10.1109/OCEANS.1972.1161117
