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Ship and Ocean Motion Control Engineering Lab
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A lab that estimates the motion performance of ships and floating structures and applies the results to autonomous navigation.
AboutAbout the lab
Estimating and controlling the motion of ships and floating structures.
The Ship and Ocean Motion Control Engineering Lab conducts research to establish methods for estimating the hydrodynamic characteristics and motion performance of ships and floating structures.
The lab believes that, to operate ships safely and prevent the loss of life and pollution of the global environment caused by marine accidents, it is important to design and build ships and floating structures with excellent motion performance.
Its research is based on theoretical calculations grounded in fluid dynamics and control engineering, and on model tests conducted in a ship motion performance test tank.
The lab applies these results with the aim of developing ships that navigate autonomously, appropriately controlling their motion based on surrounding environmental conditions.
Key terms
- Ship Motion Performance Test Tank
- An experimental facility for studying the motion of ships and floating bodies. By towing a model, it can measure the fluid forces acting on it.
- Floating Structure
- A structure that is used while floating on water. In this lab, it is a target of motion performance estimation, together with ships.
- Autonomous Navigation
- A ship controlling its own motion on the basis of surrounding environmental conditions as it proceeds.
ResearchResearch themes
The lab aims to establish methods for estimating the hydrodynamic characteristics and motion performance of ships and floating structures, in order to operate ships safely and prevent marine accidents and environmental pollution. As an application, it also aims to develop autonomously navigating ships.
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MembersFaculty
The teaching and research staff of the Ship and Ocean Motion Control Engineering Lab are a professor, an associate professor, an assistant professor, and technical staff.As of 2026
- ProfessorYoshitaka Furukawa
- Associate ProfessorMasaaki Sano
- Assistant ProfessorHiroshi Ibaragi
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Autonomous cargo ship” Wikideas1 / CC0 (cropped)
- Motion Performance Estimation and Autonomous Ships: “Sea Hunter (autonomous ship) docked 01” Votpuske / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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