• norsk
    • English
  • English 
    • norsk
    • English
  • Login
View Item 
  •   Home
  • Fakultet for informasjonsteknologi og elektroteknikk (IE)
  • Institutt for teknisk kybernetikk
  • View Item
  •   Home
  • Fakultet for informasjonsteknologi og elektroteknikk (IE)
  • Institutt for teknisk kybernetikk
  • View Item
JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

The Boarding Control System: Modelling and Control of a Surface Effect Ship for improved accessibility to Offshore Wind Turbines

Auestad, Øyvind F.
Doctoral thesis
Thumbnail
View/Open
Fulltext (PDF) available (39.30Mb)
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2366747
Date
2015
Metadata
Show full item record
Collections
  • Institutt for teknisk kybernetikk [2188]
Abstract
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).
Has parts
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.com

Paper 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
Publisher
NTNU
Series
Doctoral thesis at NTNU;2015:168

Contact Us | Send Feedback

Privacy policy
DSpace software copyright © 2002-2019  DuraSpace

Service from  Unit
 

 

Browse

ArchiveCommunities & CollectionsBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsDocument TypesJournalsThis CollectionBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsDocument TypesJournals

My Account

Login

Statistics

View Usage Statistics

Contact Us | Send Feedback

Privacy policy
DSpace software copyright © 2002-2019  DuraSpace

Service from  Unit