Design of a physical and interactive real-time simulator based on a dynamic vpp as a support tool for sailing yacht design and operation

• Autores: Ignacio Castañeda Sabadell
• Directores de la Tesis: Francisco Pérez Arribas (dir. tes.), Manuel Ruiz de Elvira Francoy (codir. tes.)
• Lectura: En la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid ( España ) en 2018
• Idioma: español
• Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Luis Perez Rojas (presid.), Ricardo Zamora Rodríguez (secret.), Jesús Valle Cabezas (voc.), Jan Alexander Keuning (voc.), Francisco Javier Pérez Villalonga (voc.)
• Programa de doctorado: Programa de Doctorado en Ingenieria Naval y Oceánica por la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
• Materias:
  • Matemáticas
    • Ciencia de los ordenadores
      • Diseño con ayuda de ordenador
      • Simulación
  • Ciencias tecnológicas
    • Tecnología naval
      • Arquitectura naval
• Enlaces
  • Tesis en acceso abierto en: Archivo Digital UPM
• Resumen

  • Performance assessment and training are two major components in technified high-level sports. Recently, high-performance sailing competitions have been forced to change with the use of the foiling technology and the training restrictions, more often included within competition rules. To answer those new situations, a new design and training tool has to be developed. Up until now, the performance assessment was made calculating the balance of forces and moments using a Velocity Prediction Program (VPP). This procedure was more than capable of dealing with conventional displacement sailboats but the dynamic nature of foiling boats compelled the development of a time-domain VPP for dynamic analysis towards a better performance. In order to improve the dynamic analysis capabilities of the VPP and to add the ability for it to be used for training, a new tool is proposed to fulfil those requirements: the simulator.

    Throughout this work the concept of the simulator has been discussed identifying its fundamental components, namely:

    • The time domain VPP.

    • The motion Platform.

    • The visualization system.

    • The physical user interface for the simulator operation.

    The different uses and applicability for this concept are explored in order to identify the potential benefits of such a tool in a high-performance environment. The different components are analysed, identifying specific problems in each area and proposing different solutions. All of this work allows proposing a modular framework of a simulator to be used in high-performance sailing boat design and training.