Simulation Tank for Control Systems -Simulations and Tests for Underwater Work about Structures of Ports and Airports

A Simulation Tank for Control Systems was built between 2004 and 2006 and funded by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism-Japan. It has been in use since April 2006. The objective of the tank is to simulate operations of various surveys, measuring and scoping about various structures at port and airport's facilities. We can obtain the specific data from the tank tests, and it will be helpful to consider the important functions of the operation, both more simply and accurately than with the tested data collected at sea where is complex situations. The tank is the only one in its design concept in Japan. The scale of free basin with a wave generator is relatively-large in simulation tanks for research in Japan. In this paper, I introduce the facility and show some outputs from the tank tests over the last 2-years.