Current Situation and Tendency of Development of Ship Stabilizer Technique

The traditional ship stabilizer includes fin stabilizer,anti-rolling tank,rudder roll stabilizer,moved mass stabilizer etc..this paper introduces the development status of these traditional stabilizers and some new stabilizers developed in recent years,such as fin stabilizer at zero speed,rudder-fin stabilizer,tank-fin stabilizer,Magnus Effect rotor stabilizer,pitch stabilizer and ship motion control system.And the prospective ship stabilizers are forecasted at the last part of this paper.