Girón Sierra, José María RicardoJiménez, J. F.Domínguez, A.Cruz García, Jesús Manuel de la2023-06-202023-06-202005960-8457-12-2https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/53347International Conference on Automatic Control, Modeling and Simulation (7th. Mar 13-15, 2005. Praga, República Checa)Marine environments offer suggestive scenarios for Automatic control and Cooperation strategies to be applied. The present paper focus on a particular one: Two ships towing together an off-shore oil retaining boom. Basic dynamical equations are presented for the combined displacement of both ships plus the boom. Computer simulation of basic manoeuvres works out the basic control implications of the problem and suggests cooperation among the ships as a suitable and reliable technique to fulfil ships goals and minimize boom strain.spabook parthttp://www.wseas.us/e-library/conferences/2005prague/papers/493-162.pdf?CFID=443409709&CFTOKEN=74260902http://www.wseas.us/open access004Automation & Control SystemsOperations Research & Management ScienceMathematics AppliedInformática (Informática)1203.17 Informática