Real-time tracking system for a moored oil tanker: A Kalman filter approach

This paper presents a tracking system developed to study the behavior of an oil tanker moored at the Berth A of the Leixões Oil Terminal, Porto, Portugal. A brief description of the local environmental conditions and the existing operational conditions at that oil terminal are presented. Due to extr...

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Main Author: Paulo Malheiros (author)
Other Authors: Paulo Rosa Santos (author), José Gonçalves (author), Paulo Costa (author), António Paulo Moreira (author), Fernando Veloso Gomes (author), Francisco Taveira Pinto (author)
Format: book
Language:eng
Published: 2013
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10216/95241
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio-aberto.up.pt:10216/95241
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Summary:This paper presents a tracking system developed to study the behavior of an oil tanker moored at the Berth A of the Leixões Oil Terminal, Porto, Portugal. A brief description of the local environmental conditions and the existing operational conditions at that oil terminal are presented. Due to extreme outdoor working conditions a Kalman filter was implemented to ensure the robustness and reliability of the obtained measurements. Tests were performed in laboratory on a physical model of a moored oil tanker at a scale 1/100. The results were compared with a commercial motion capture system installed in laboratory. The presented measurement system was developed as part of the DOLPHIN project that aims to study the behavior of moored ships in harbors.