The Boarding Control System: Modelling and Control of a Surface Effect Ship for improved accessibility to Offshore Wind Turbines
Doctoral thesis
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The main contribution of this thesis is to introduce a control system that enables
access to offshore wind turbines for operation and maintenance (O&M) in higher
sea states than what is possible today, while maintaining an acceptable level of
risk. The system is implemented on-board on a Surface Effect Ship (SES) which
introduces a new craft-concept to the turbine transfer vessels. Catamarans and
Small-water-area twin hulls (SWATHs) are currently dominating the market.
The control system is denoted the Boarding Control System (BCS) which is
a control algorithm that utilizes certain sensors and hardware to control air- ow
actuators on a SES. The controlled actuators regulates the air cushion pressure to
counteract, and compensate against, the vessel motions set up by sea wave propagations.
Hence, we perform motion damping in the vertical plane which ultimately
improves the accessibility to wind turbines.
The work presented in this thesis influenced the decision to build two vessels of
the Wave Craft class, build no. 21 and 22 by Umoe Mandal. The prototype, Umoe
Ventus, is currently operating at Borkum Riffgrund 1, a wind-farm in the German
sector of the North Sea.
The SES-dynamics related to the BCS is mathematically modelled and a controller
is designed. Stability investigations are performed and system performance
are given through simulation, model- and full-scale experimental testing.
The performance of the BCS proves that accessibility to offshore-structures is
possible in higher seas compared to the case where the system is inactive. Today
it is possible to access turbines in up to 1:5 - 1:75m signifcant wave height (Hs).
The SES with the BCS is tested in up to 2m Hs with no sign of reduced safety for
offshore personnel while boarding a turbine. The model-test results indicates that
access is possible in up to 2:5m Hs and at least 3:2m in long-crested seas (Section
2.5).
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Paper 1: Ø. F. Auestad, J. T. Gravdahl, A. J. Sørensen, and T. H. Espeland. Simulator and control system design for a free floating surface effect ship at zero vessel speed. In Proceedings of the 8th IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicle 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.3182/20130626-3-AU-2035.00064 The article is reprinted with kind permission from Elsevier, sciencedirect.comPaper 2: Ø. F. Auestad, J. T. Gravdahl, and T. I. Fossen. Heave motion estimation on a craft using a strapdown inertial measurement unit. In proceedings of the 9th IFAC Conference on Control Applications in Marine System http://dx.doi.org/10.3182/20130918-4-JP-3022.00033 The article is reprinted with kind permission from Elsevier, sciencedirect.com
Paper 3: Ø. F. Auestad, J. T. Gravdahl, A. J. Sørensen, and T. H. Espeland. Motion compensation system for a free floating surface effect ship. In proceedings of the 19th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control 2014, IFAC The article is reprinted with kind permission from Elsevier, sciencedirect.com
Paper 4: Auestad, Øyvind Fidje; Gravdahl, Jan Tommy; Perez, Tristan; Sørensen, Asgeir Johan; Espeland, Trygve H.. Boarding control system for improved accessibility to offshore wind turbines: Full-scale testing. © 2015. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ the final version is published in Control Engineering Practice 2015 ;Volum 45. s. 207-218 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.conengprac.2015.09.016