The original purpose of Vessel Monitoring System(VMS) is for enforcement and control of vessel sailing. With the application of VMS in fishing vessels, more and more population dynamic studies have used VMS data to im...The original purpose of Vessel Monitoring System(VMS) is for enforcement and control of vessel sailing. With the application of VMS in fishing vessels, more and more population dynamic studies have used VMS data to improve the accuracy of fisheries stock assessment. In this paper, we simulated the trawl trajectory under different time intervals using the cubic Hermite spline(c Hs) interpolation method based on the VMS data of 8 single otter trawl vessels(totally 36000 data items) fishing in Zhoushan fishing ground from September 2012 to December 2012, and selected the appropriate time interval. We then determined vessels' activities(fishing or non-fishing) by comparing VMS speed data with the corresponding speeds from logbooks. The results showed that the error of simulated trajectory greatly increased with the increase of time intervals of VMS data when they were longer than 30 minutes. Comparing the speeds from VMS with those from the corresponding logbooks, we found that the vessels' speeds were between 2.5 kn and 5.0 kn in fishing. The c Hs interpolation method is a new choice for improving the accuracy of estimation of sailing trajectory, and the VMS can be used to determine the vessels' activities with the analysis of their trajectories and speeds. Therefore, when the fishery information is limited, VMS can be one of the important data sources for fisheries stock assessment, and more attention should be paid to its construction and application to fisheries stock assessment and management.展开更多
When an oceanographic vessel is sailing, the currents near the surface of ship hull are rapid, making it hard to meet the environmental requirements of scientific observation equipment. To guarantee the installation s...When an oceanographic vessel is sailing, the currents near the surface of ship hull are rapid, making it hard to meet the environmental requirements of scientific observation equipment. To guarantee the installation space and environmental requirements of the observation equipment, the drop keel system was proposed for the first time for ocean-graphic ships at China, to avoid the traditional "rudder-shaft" type fin keel's disadvantage. The research study will examine the operational mechanism and functions of the drop keel system, the operating conditions of the fin keel to determine the driver method and its arrangement, and the locking method of the fin keel underwater. The research wilI also provide some general designs for analyzing the best plan for the drop keel system.展开更多
For a ship in service,seawater corrosion is unavoidable. In order to ensure navigation safety and master the steel plate thickness in service ship,thickness of the ship steel plate must be tested periodically by a sci...For a ship in service,seawater corrosion is unavoidable. In order to ensure navigation safety and master the steel plate thickness in service ship,thickness of the ship steel plate must be tested periodically by a scientific method. After consideration of an actual situation of thickness measurement,the bearing mechanism of ultrasonic thickness meter probe has been designed on the basis of wall-climbing robot,and preliminary experiments have been carried out. The device is mainly used for thickness measurement of a large area of ship hull plate when the docking ship has been sandblasted. Efficiency and safety can be improved to finish thickness measurement by using the device.展开更多
When voyaging,ships are subject to inevitable hull deformations caused by the changes in the environmental temperature and external stress.These are a crucial source of errors when measuring data using a spacecraft tr...When voyaging,ships are subject to inevitable hull deformations caused by the changes in the environmental temperature and external stress.These are a crucial source of errors when measuring data using a spacecraft tracking,telemetry,and control(TT&C) ship.A prototype system based on photogrammetry was developed for the real-time measurement of a spacecraft TT&C ship's hull deformation.This system has high accuracy,a simple structure,and convenient maintenance,and requires few changes to the ship's structures.To improve its performance,an estimation approach is proposed for hull deformation angles.With the proposed approach,the central positions of cross spots in successive frames can be predicted based on the prediction of the camera's attitude,and their extract locations can be found by defining a series of small windows around each predictive location.Then,the optimal estimate of the camera's attitude is updated by the designed extended Kalman filter using the extracted cross spots and their corresponding local coordinates,with which the hull deformation angles can be found.To verify the proposed measurement approach,its performance was tested during the normal sailing,floating,and rocking on the sea of a spacecraft TT&C ship.The experimental testing results demonstrated that the proposed approach performs well in terms of accuracy and robustness.It can satisfy the hull deformation measurement requirement for a spacecraft TT&C ship in real time.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation (No. 40801225)the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province (No. LY13D 010005)Young academic leader climbing program of Zhejiang Province (grant number pd 2013222)
文摘The original purpose of Vessel Monitoring System(VMS) is for enforcement and control of vessel sailing. With the application of VMS in fishing vessels, more and more population dynamic studies have used VMS data to improve the accuracy of fisheries stock assessment. In this paper, we simulated the trawl trajectory under different time intervals using the cubic Hermite spline(c Hs) interpolation method based on the VMS data of 8 single otter trawl vessels(totally 36000 data items) fishing in Zhoushan fishing ground from September 2012 to December 2012, and selected the appropriate time interval. We then determined vessels' activities(fishing or non-fishing) by comparing VMS speed data with the corresponding speeds from logbooks. The results showed that the error of simulated trajectory greatly increased with the increase of time intervals of VMS data when they were longer than 30 minutes. Comparing the speeds from VMS with those from the corresponding logbooks, we found that the vessels' speeds were between 2.5 kn and 5.0 kn in fishing. The c Hs interpolation method is a new choice for improving the accuracy of estimation of sailing trajectory, and the VMS can be used to determine the vessels' activities with the analysis of their trajectories and speeds. Therefore, when the fishery information is limited, VMS can be one of the important data sources for fisheries stock assessment, and more attention should be paid to its construction and application to fisheries stock assessment and management.
文摘When an oceanographic vessel is sailing, the currents near the surface of ship hull are rapid, making it hard to meet the environmental requirements of scientific observation equipment. To guarantee the installation space and environmental requirements of the observation equipment, the drop keel system was proposed for the first time for ocean-graphic ships at China, to avoid the traditional "rudder-shaft" type fin keel's disadvantage. The research study will examine the operational mechanism and functions of the drop keel system, the operating conditions of the fin keel to determine the driver method and its arrangement, and the locking method of the fin keel underwater. The research wilI also provide some general designs for analyzing the best plan for the drop keel system.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51309116)
文摘For a ship in service,seawater corrosion is unavoidable. In order to ensure navigation safety and master the steel plate thickness in service ship,thickness of the ship steel plate must be tested periodically by a scientific method. After consideration of an actual situation of thickness measurement,the bearing mechanism of ultrasonic thickness meter probe has been designed on the basis of wall-climbing robot,and preliminary experiments have been carried out. The device is mainly used for thickness measurement of a large area of ship hull plate when the docking ship has been sandblasted. Efficiency and safety can be improved to finish thickness measurement by using the device.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.11272347)
文摘When voyaging,ships are subject to inevitable hull deformations caused by the changes in the environmental temperature and external stress.These are a crucial source of errors when measuring data using a spacecraft tracking,telemetry,and control(TT&C) ship.A prototype system based on photogrammetry was developed for the real-time measurement of a spacecraft TT&C ship's hull deformation.This system has high accuracy,a simple structure,and convenient maintenance,and requires few changes to the ship's structures.To improve its performance,an estimation approach is proposed for hull deformation angles.With the proposed approach,the central positions of cross spots in successive frames can be predicted based on the prediction of the camera's attitude,and their extract locations can be found by defining a series of small windows around each predictive location.Then,the optimal estimate of the camera's attitude is updated by the designed extended Kalman filter using the extracted cross spots and their corresponding local coordinates,with which the hull deformation angles can be found.To verify the proposed measurement approach,its performance was tested during the normal sailing,floating,and rocking on the sea of a spacecraft TT&C ship.The experimental testing results demonstrated that the proposed approach performs well in terms of accuracy and robustness.It can satisfy the hull deformation measurement requirement for a spacecraft TT&C ship in real time.