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Remote laboratory for marine vehicles experimentation
Author(s) -
Velasco F. J.,
Revestido E.,
Moyano E.,
López E.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
computer applications in engineering education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.478
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1099-0542
pISSN - 1061-3773
DOI - 10.1002/cae.20444
Subject(s) - heading (navigation) , global positioning system , accelerometer , computer science , marine engineering , software , scale (ratio) , remote sensing , systems engineering , aeronautics , simulation , aerospace engineering , engineering , telecommunications , geology , operating system , physics , quantum mechanics
This article describes a remote experimentation environment for marine vehicles (Hardware and Software) and its application in engineering education. The laboratory has an in‐scale model of a turbo‐ferry tf‐120 which keeps all the hydrodynamic characteristics of the full‐scale vessel. The physical model was developed to be autonomous and is controlled remotely from a PC using Wi‐Fi communications. It has the instruments commonly used in vessels such as: GPS, UMI, accelerometers and gyrocompass. A simulation of a manoeuvring model has been developed based on geometrical definitions and compared to a heading identified model. The possibilities of the remote laboratory for engineering education are discussed. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Comput Appl Eng Educ 20: 728–740, 2012
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