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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 09, 1997
Christoph Becker, Kiel, DE;
Raytheon Marine G.m.b.H., , DE;
Abstract
The desired course line or rhumb line of a ship is predetermined just before the ship leaves a harbor and is inputted to the autopilot of a ship's automatic course control unit. When the ship is underway a gyro compass indicates the course of the ship during its movement out of the harbor and a position receiver in the control unit generates signals responding to the actual position of the ship (its heading) and supplies the signals to a computer unit which senses any deviation of the ship due to its lateral drift from the predetermined course line. In response to the signals the autopilot computes a new course necessary to correct the course of the ship, and automatically adjusts the heading of the ship to the new course to return the ship to the predetermined course line.