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dynamic positioning: a standalone construct

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Marine engineering

automatic control of a vessel's thrusters to hold position and heading against wind, waves and current without anchors.

In marine engineering, dynamic positioning refers to automatic control of a vessel's thrusters to hold position and heading against wind, waves and current without anchors. This meaning comes from Sørensen (2011) in Annual Reviews in Control.[1]

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References

Sørensen, A. J. (2011). A survey of dynamic positioning control systems. Annual Reviews in Control, 35(1), 123-136. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arcontrol.2011.03.008

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