The naval architects, are interested in the modern developments of the automatic control or servomechanisms. This brief argument relates to their applications to the experimental techniques at towing tanks, where many important tests of ship forms and propellers are under way. Servomechanisms are seemed to find two kinds of application there; the one is the motion control of towing carriage, model ship, and etc., and the other is the measurement of auto-balancing type. The former has come from
Constant Speed Control of Towing Carriage during a test F. 2 showes two actual examples of this control with a feed back by a tacho-generator. This type of control keeps not only a constant speed during a test, but makes the towing carriage system much
quick response and shortens the travel of the carriage for the acceleration and the retardation. Now, the motion control is utilized to more varions purposes. For example, two systems showned on F. 4 & 5 are following-servo to eliminate the relative mean speed between the carriage and the model ship during a test, The begining of auto-balancing measurement at towing tank is Gebers' resistance-dynamometer (F. 1), which have been used since about 1920. Substituting a two-phase servomotor for the DC-reversible motor, and a continuous displacement detector and a vacuum tube amplifier for the pair of electric contact, the dynamometers of this kind attain the much better performances. F. 6 shows a thrust meter of this type for self-propelled tests. It should be noted that the auto-balancing dynamometer has superior quick response ability in spite of its high sensitivity, therefore, it is specially disirable to tank tests with severe limitation of measuring time. The applications of the autobalancing measurement are not only the dynamometer, but miscellaneous. The hot wire currentmeter of auto-balancing type (F. 7) is a exampl of them.
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