Towing Carriage
Marine Cybernetics Laboratory (MCLab)
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Specifications of Main Carriage

  • X-Carriage: running longitudinally on Y-Carriage, for generation of surge motions
  • Y-Carriage: running sideways on main carriage, for generation of sway motions
  • Yaw-Carriage: rotating on X-Carriage, for Yaw motions
  • Two vertical cylinders on the Yaw-Carriage for generation of coupled Heave and Pitch/Roll motions

Modes of Operation

  • Towing carriage
  • Follow free running models
  • Forced oscillations in 5 DOF (PMM + VMM)

 


Editor: Thor I. Fossen,       Contact address: Asgeir Sørensen,        Updated: February 11, 2002