MARINE VEHICLE THRUSTER CONTROL METHOD

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United States of America Patent

APP PUB NO 20190009872A1
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16065798

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A method for controlling a thruster of a marine vehicle includes a body and a thruster mounted on the body of the vehicle, the vehicle being at least partially immersed in a liquid and moving with respect to the liquid along an axis of displacement in a direction of displacement and rotating about at least one axis of rotation perpendicular to the axis of displacement with a rotational speed, the thruster including an upstream propeller and a downstream propeller along the axis of displacement in the direction of displacement. The method including a stabilization step, in which the thruster is controlled such that the main axis of the upstream flow generated by the upstream propeller at a given instant t is an estimated main axis on which a position of a center of the downstream propeller, situated substantially on the axis of rotation of the downstream propeller, is estimated to be situated at a later instant t+dt at which the flow generated by the upstream propeller at the given instant t reaches the downstream propeller, the estimated main axis depending on the rotational speed of the vehicle.

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THALESLORIS NORTH OF KARP COURBEVOIE FRANCE COURBEVOIE HAUTS-DE-SEINE

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
BOREL, Christophe SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, FR 10 10
BOUYER, Cyril SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, FR 3 1
BRUNET, Jean-Philippe SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, FR 8 23
THECKES, Benoît SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, FR 3 1

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