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2.154 Maneuver & Control of Vehicles

Fall 2018

Professor: Nicholas M Patrikalakis, Michael S Triantafyllou

TA: Dixia Fan

Lecture: TR9.30-11 (1-132)

2.154 Bulletin Description:

2.154 Maneuvering and Control of Surface and Underwater Vehicles
Prereq: 2.22
G (Fall)
3-0-9 units

Maneuvering motions of surface and underwater vehicles. Derivation of equations of motion, hydrodynamic coefficients. Memory effects. Linear and nonlinear forms of the equations of motion. Control surfaces modeling and design. Engine, propulsor, and transmission systems modeling and simulation during maneuvering. Stability of motion. Principles of multivariable automatic control. Optimal control, Kalman filtering, loop transfer recovery. Term project.

Announcements

Final Report for 2.154 Term Project

We have now received via stellar and paper all your final reports. I have briefly revised them and they look great. We will be reading them carefully over the next 2-3 days.

I will email a couple of you about some formatting issues (some equations are partially off the margins, page number sometimes missing etc).

I am impressed at the quality of your hard work!

NMP

Announced on 13 December 2018 11:34 a.m. by Nicholas M Patrikalakis

Format of Term Project Report

I would appreciate it if you reprocess your project reports, as I have difficulty reading some of the smaller fonts. May I suggest the following

Font Type to be Times Roman
Font Size of the main text to be 14, while Section Titles can be 16-18)

I also would like TWO Single-Sided Color paper copies sometime this week.

For consistency, I would appreciate it if you upload these new versions on Stellar. I will re-issue the project request AT THE BOTTOM of Homeworks section, so you can submit these new files.

Thank you for your understanding,

NMP

Announced on 12 December 2018 1:08 p.m. by Nicholas M Patrikalakis

project presentation

I have uploaded your project presentation draft (in pptx and pdf )
from last evening on the 2.154 stellar website under
Homework and Solutions.

Prof. Joe Harbour plans to also attend the presentations.

Good luck with your presentations, see you soon,

NMP

Announced on 11 December 2018 8:35 a.m. by Nicholas M Patrikalakis

presentations length and 2 min for discussion per group of two

The maximum time of presentation per group of two is 16 minutes, but please keep it to a maximum of 13-14 minutes to allow for a few questions.

Thank you

NMP

Announced on 10 December 2018 11:59 a.m. by Nicholas M Patrikalakis

Project Presentations

Thank you for your email and plans of 2.154 Term Project presentations. This will be in the usual room 1-132, 9:35-10:55am. Please load your presentations in a single laptop to avoid delays with computer changes. Please confirm your set-up is in good order well before 9:30am. With 5 groups we have a maximum of 16 minutes per group, but if a group requires more time, please discuss in advance and agree on the time schedule.

Please let me know the time schedule by 9am tomorrow. The topic schedule is

Part 1.1 - Part 1.5 – Deeter / Hasenbank
Part 1.6 and Part 1.7 – Ruggles / Barker
Part 2.1 and Part 2.2 - Stanfield / Baxter
Part 2.3 - Trakht / Liu
Part 3.1 - Part 3.3 - Jeunehomme / Jolley

After you are done submitting your final report, I would appreciate it if you collect all errata, typos, etc in the class notes and the typed-up notes and let me know by email if possible, scanning any necessary pages with corrections if that is simpler. You can communicate these corrections to me on paper, if it is easier.

Please also submit the class evaluations once done with the project.

I look forward to your presentations.

Thanks for taking the class and best wishes for success always.

Nick Patrikalakis

Michael Triantafyllou
Dixia FAN

Announced on 10 December 2018 11:55 a.m. by Nicholas M Patrikalakis

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