Online Prediction of Ship Coupled Heave-Pitch Motions in Irregular Waves Based on a Coarse-and-Fine Tuning Fixed-Grid Wavelet Network

Abstract

A method based on a coarse- and fine-tuning fixed-grid wavelet networks is presented for online prediction of the coupled heave-pitch motions of a ship in irregular waves. The online modeling method contains two processes, i.e., coarse tuning and fine tuning. The coarse tuning is used to select the important wavelet terms, while the fine tuning is only used to compute the related coefficients of the selected wavelet terms. The Givens transformation algorithm is applied to realize the fine-tuning process. Due to the continuous fine-tuning process, the computational efficiency is improved significantly. Both simulation data and experimental data are used to verify the modeling method. The prediction results illustrate that the method has the ability to online predict the coupled heave-pitch motions of a ship in irregular waves.