The vessel heave motion caused by wave action increases the difficulty of installing offshore wind equipment.On-board wave heave compensation devices have therefore become increasingly critical in ensuring the stabili...The vessel heave motion caused by wave action increases the difficulty of installing offshore wind equipment.On-board wave heave compensation devices have therefore become increasingly critical in ensuring the stability and safety of the gangway and working platform.This study accordingly improves the compensation effect of such devices by developing a wave heave compensation model and designing an optimized backstepping control method.First,a model of the compensation system including the servo motor and electric cylinder is established by using the mechanism method.Second,a backstepping control method is designed to track the vessel heave motion,and particle swarm optimization is applied to optimize the control parameters.Finally,MATLAB/Simulink is used to simulate the application of the optimized backstepping controller,then regular and irregular heave motions are applied as input to a Stewart platform to evaluate the effectiveness of the control method.The experimental results show that the compensation efficiency provided by the proposed optimized backstepping control method is larger than 75.0%.展开更多
A passive heave compensator is designed to enhance the operation safety of a 4.5 km remotely operated vehicle (ROV).This paper proposes a novel idea of designing a compensator with relatively low natural period to opt...A passive heave compensator is designed to enhance the operation safety of a 4.5 km remotely operated vehicle (ROV).This paper proposes a novel idea of designing a compensator with relatively low natural period to optimize gas volume and while adding a special device to remove the problem of ineffectiveness and resonance in long seas.Numerical simulations are done based on serious dynamic model of the whole system,including the compensator,the umbilical tether and the vehicle,solved by the fourth-order Runge-Kutta scheme.The compensator provides great attenuation of motion and tension in most sea states.As the working depth increases,the system natural period decreases,resulting in the occurrence of risk of resonance.By regulating the system damping,the compensator can be effective in these situations.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.62073213).
文摘The vessel heave motion caused by wave action increases the difficulty of installing offshore wind equipment.On-board wave heave compensation devices have therefore become increasingly critical in ensuring the stability and safety of the gangway and working platform.This study accordingly improves the compensation effect of such devices by developing a wave heave compensation model and designing an optimized backstepping control method.First,a model of the compensation system including the servo motor and electric cylinder is established by using the mechanism method.Second,a backstepping control method is designed to track the vessel heave motion,and particle swarm optimization is applied to optimize the control parameters.Finally,MATLAB/Simulink is used to simulate the application of the optimized backstepping controller,then regular and irregular heave motions are applied as input to a Stewart platform to evaluate the effectiveness of the control method.The experimental results show that the compensation efficiency provided by the proposed optimized backstepping control method is larger than 75.0%.
基金the National High Technology Research and Development Program (863) of China(No. 2008AA092301-1)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No. 50909061)the PH. D. Programs Foundation of Ministry of Education of China(No. 20070248103)
文摘A passive heave compensator is designed to enhance the operation safety of a 4.5 km remotely operated vehicle (ROV).This paper proposes a novel idea of designing a compensator with relatively low natural period to optimize gas volume and while adding a special device to remove the problem of ineffectiveness and resonance in long seas.Numerical simulations are done based on serious dynamic model of the whole system,including the compensator,the umbilical tether and the vehicle,solved by the fourth-order Runge-Kutta scheme.The compensator provides great attenuation of motion and tension in most sea states.As the working depth increases,the system natural period decreases,resulting in the occurrence of risk of resonance.By regulating the system damping,the compensator can be effective in these situations.
