Proceedings of the Ship Control Systems Symposium (5th), Held at U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland on October 30 - November 3, 1978. Volume 3,

Abstract : Partial contents: Plant Control and Surveillance Using a Distributed Processor Based Control System; Evaluation of Digital Technology for Use in Naval propulsion Control Systems; Formulation of a Computer Strategy for Real-time, Shipborne, Digital Systems; Operational Readiness Monitoring System; Evaluation of a Steering System through a Failure Mode and Effect Analysis; Conceptual Design for a Shipboard Machinery Performance Monitoring System; Optimal Personnel Redundance on a Warship; An Optimising Function for Adaptive Ships Autopilots; System Identification of Linear and Non-Linear Ship Steering Dynamics; Digital Simulation Study of Steering Control with Effects of Roll Motions; Impact of an All-Weather Percision Navigation System for Channel Navigation Performance and Ship Control; Simulator Study on the Design of Inland Waterways; Safety of Two-Way Traffic in a Panama Canal Bend; Comparative Analysis of Modeling Techniques for Gas Turbine - Controllable Reversible Pitch Propulsion Systems; Simulation of a Torque Control System for a Ship with an Electrical Propulsion Drive; State Space Model of Ship Propulsion Plant.