Research on ship control with mechanical arms based on the PID controller

Abstract

At present, there are still a large number of ships in operation with no autopilot. The helmsman usually steers the ship manually for a long time, which is prone to fatigue and poses potential safety risks. To address this problem. A control method with a set of mechanical arms is used to solve the problem of the autopilot of ships with low electrification. A PID controller combined with a mechanical arm and based simulation model for ship control is established. The simulation results show that the method and the model preliminarily demonstrate the feasibility of the mechanical arm in ship steering.