TY - BOOK TI - The Ocean Engineering : Handbook/ SN - 9780367397692 U1 - 620.4162 23 PY - 2001/// CY - New York PB - CRC Press N1 - Table of Content 1. Marine hydrodynamics and vehicle control 1.1 Anatomy of sea level variability 1.2 Guidance and control systems for marine vehicles 1.3 Sea ambient Noise 1.4 Basic shipboard instrument and fixed automatic stations for monitoring 2.Modeling considerations 2.1 Marine hydrodynamics and dynamics of a floating structure 2.2 Mathematical modeling of ocean waves 2.3 Systems approaches to heave compensation in marine dynamics applications 2.4 Approaches to marine seismic extraction 3. Position control systems for offshore vessels 3.1 Marine positioning systems 3.2 Mathematical modeling of dynamically positioned and thruster-assisted anchored marine vessels 3.3 Position and velocity observer design 3.4 Design of controllers for positioning of marine vessels 3.5 Weather optimal control 4. Computational Intelligence in ocean engineering ER -