The present paper is concerned with floating marine structures that are kept in position by means of mooring lines in addition to a thruster system. Different options relevant for construction of automatic control schemes for the thruster system are first investigated based on a simplified response model. In particular, the role of structural reliability criteria applied to the mooring system is investigated. Subsequently, a more refined control algorithm based on such reliability criteria is introduced. The performance of this control system is demonstrated by numerical simulations.
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Safety and Reliability
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