<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The paper presents the dynamic positioning system (DP), particularly its thruster allocation model, designed for ORP ‘Kormoran’, a Polish mine destroyer built for the Polish Navy in Remontowa Shipbuilding S.A. in Gdańsk. The ORP ‘Kormoran’ ship is the newest and best equipped minehunter ship in Europe. The main task of the new Polish mine destroyer is to search for, classify, identify and combat marine mines and improvised underwater explosives, recognize waterways, transport mines, deploy mines and provide remote control of self-propelled anti-mine platforms. The dynamic positioning control system of the ship presented in the article was constructed by Autocomp Management Ltd. from Szczecin, the only in Poland and one of the few producers of dynamic ship positioning systems in the world.</p></abstract>

The paper presents the dynamic positioning system (DP), particularly its thruster allocation model, designed for ORP ‘Kormoran’, a Polish mine destroyer built for the Polish Navy in Remontowa Shipbuilding S.A. in Gdańsk. The ORP ‘Kormoran’ ship is the newest and best equipped minehunter ship in Europe. The main task of the new Polish mine destroyer is to search for, classify, identify and combat marine mines and improvised underwater explosives, recognize waterways, transport mines, deploy mines and provide remote control of self-propelled anti-mine platforms. The dynamic positioning control system of the ship presented in the article was constructed by Autocomp Management Ltd. from Szczecin, the only in Poland and one of the few producers of dynamic ship positioning systems in the world.

Modern Dynamic Positioning (DP) System of ORP ‘Kormoran’ — Class Mine Destroyer

Polish Naval Academy, Faculty of Navigation and Naval Weapons

Maritime Technical Journal

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The paper presents the dynamic positioning system (DP), particularly its thruster allocation model, designed for ORP ‘Kormoran’, a Polish mine destroyer built...

Modern Dynamic Positioning (DP) System of ORP ‘Kormoran’ — Class Mine Destroyer

Published Online: Feb 01, 2019

Page range: 143 - 155

Received: May 21, 2018

Accepted: Dec 14, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjpna-2018-0031

Keywords
DP, dynamic positioning, thrust allocation, constrained convex optimization, ORP ‘Kormoran’

© 2018 Paweł Zalewski et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Modern Dynamic Positioning (DP) System of ORP ‘Kormoran’ — Class Mine Destroyer

Published Online: Feb 01, 2019

Page range: 143 - 155

Received: May 21, 2018

Accepted: Dec 14, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjpna-2018-0031

KeywordsDP, dynamic positioning, thrust allocation, constrained convex optimization, ORP ‘Kormoran’

© 2018 Paweł Zalewski et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
DP, dynamic positioning, thrust allocation, constrained convex optimization, ORP ‘Kormoran’