The Assessment of ADIS 16364 for the Examination of Ship Motions in the Free-Running Model

The ADIS 16364 instrument is frequently employed for direct measurement of ship motion on ships. However, the validation process for ADIS 16364, to assure its reliability in monitoring ship motion, has not yet been completed. The ship motion model test conducted at the hydrodynamics laboratory utilizes the free-running test technique in conjunction with the QUALISYS motion capture system and the ADIS 16364 device. The purpose of this assessment is to ascertain the instrument's appropriateness for performing ship motion testing. The ADIS device is composed of two components: an accelerometer and a gyroscope. These components are employed to quantify the acceleration of the ship's heave motion and the rotational velocity of its pitch and roll motions, respectively. Utilizing a motion capture system, the QUALISYS Motion Capture System records the motion of a ship model. The examination evaluates two discrete waves produced, comprising two cases of regular waves measuring 10 centimetres in height and 1.5 seconds in period and two cases of irregular waves measuring 16 centimetres in height and 1.75 seconds in period. The elevation motion data in the time domain is acquired from the measurements of the instrument via a wireless system. Following this, various numerical processing methods are implemented, including the moving average filter and cumulative trapezoidal numerical integration. As a result, the root mean square percentage error (RMSPE) discrepancies between the two measuring instruments for regular waves are restricted to a maximum of 5.7% for roll motion and fall below 4% for heave and pitch motions. In the results of the model test response, every movement in both the regular wave and irregular wave scenarios is the same because it does not have an RMSPE of more than 5%.