A Four-Quadrant Thrust Estimation Scheme for Marine Propellers: Theory and Experiments

A thrust estimation scheme for marine propellers that can operate in the full four-quadrant range of the propeller shaft speed and the vessel speed has been developed. The scheme is formed by a nonlinear observer to estimate the propeller torque and the propeller shaft speed and by a mapping to compute the thrust from the observer estimates. The mapping includes the estimation of the propeller advance ratio. The advance speed is assumed to be unknown, and only measurements of shaft speed and motor torque have been used. The robustness of the scheme is demonstrated by Lyapunov theory. The proposed method is experimentally tested on an electrically driven fixed pitch propeller in open-water conditions, in waves and with a wake screen that scales the local flow down in order to simulate one of the effects of the interaction between the propeller and the vessel hull.

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