Abstract
At the Control Laboratory of the Electrical Engineering Department of Delft University of Technology much research has been carried out during the last fifteen years in the field of ship control systems, with the main emphasis on automatic steering of ships. This work has resulted in the design of an adaptive autopilot (Van Amerongen, 1984). At the moment research is concentrated on the design of an autopilot which uses the rudder not only for course keeping but for stabilization of the roll angle as well. This paper demonstrates how modern computer-aided design methods may help in designing such a system, especially when analytical methods fail because of non-linearities of the process.
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