Successful study of the discipline “Electro-navigational devices” involves obtaining the following results:

1. Knowledge of the basic laws, theories and principles of operation of gyrocompasses:

   - processes of continuous and damped oscillations of sensitive elements;

   - external and internal factors affecting the occurrence of deviations of gyrocompasses, taking into account the total inertial deviation.

   - influence of the ship's rolling on the accuracy of gyrocompasses;

   - constructive differences of various models of gyrocompasses with an autonomous and corrected sensitive element.

2. Knowledge of the construction of magnetic compasses and their use:

    - formation of the ship's magnetic field;

    - determination of magnetic compass errors; methods of compensating of semicircular and heeling errors, calculation of the residual deviation table.

3. Knowledge of the construction of ship’s echo sounders and their use:

    - the principle of acoustic depth measurement:

    - depth measurement errors of echo sounders and their accounting

4. Knowledge of the construction of ship’s speed meters and their use:

   - principle of operation and technical characteristics of induction, Doppler and correlation logs. Speed logs errors and their consideration.

5. Knowledge of the principles of auto-pilot construction:

   - management laws used in ship’s automatic course control systems; operation modes of the autopilots

Acquiring learning outcomes for the educational component is achieved by studying the following sections:

1. Basics of the theory, principles of operation and construction of gyrocompasses with an autonomous and corrected sensitive element.
2. Basics of the theory, principles of operation, adjustment of magnetic compasses and their use.
3. Basics of the theory, principles of operation of the ship’s echo sounders.
4. Basics of the theory, construction and operation of ship speed meters.
5. Basics of the theory, principles of operation and use of ship’s autopilots.