A Study of Modeling, Simulation and Control Strategies for Marine Control Systems

This paper presents a review of various recent papers on development of models for control systems of large and complex processes of a vessel‘s main and auxiliary systems. The aim of this paper is to bring together the, technological developments, new concepts, and comprehensive studies in the area of ship‘s process modeling and simulation. The effort is focused towards providing a list of references to recent papers, conferences and proceedings related to modeling and simulation of ship‘s control systems. The control systems related to ship‘s main systems like engine, propeller, rudder, thrusters, fins and major auxiliary systems like Boiler, Governor, Steering system, turbo-charger, ODMCS etc. have been included. Additionally, basic information (reference, publication type, modeling/simulation methodology, broad problem area etc.) about grouped references has been given. The paper also discusses various software tools, which may be used for modeling and simulation purpose.