Data processing: vehicles – navigation – and relative location – Vehicle control – guidance – operation – or indication – Marine vehicle
Patent
1997-06-09
1999-11-09
Nguyen, Tan
Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
Vehicle control, guidance, operation, or indication
Marine vehicle
701 26, 701 24, G01C 2120, G05D 0102
Patent
active
059831456
ABSTRACT:
The desired course line or rhumb line of a ship is predetermined just before the ship leaves a harbor and is inputted to the autopilot of a ship's automatic course control unit. When the ship is underway a gyro compass indicates the course of the ship during its movement out of the harbor and a position receiver in the control unit generates signals responding to the actual position of the ship (its heading) and supplies the signals to a computer unit which senses any deviation of the ship due to its lateral drift from the predetermined course line. In response to the signals the autopilot computes a new course necessary to correct the course of the ship, and automatically adjusts the heading of the ship to the new course to return the ship to the predetermined course line.
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Nguyen Tan
Raytheon Marine G.m.b.H.
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