Performance Improvement of a Hydraulic Active/Passive Heave Compensation Winch Using Semi Secondary Motor Control: Experimental and Numerical Verification

Autor: Geir-Arne Moslått, Michael Rygaard Hansen, Damiano Padovani
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Energies, Vol 13, Iss 10, p 2671 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1996-1073
DOI: 10.3390/en13102671
Popis: In this paper, a newly developed controller for active heave compensated offshore cranes is compared with state-of-the-art control methods. The comparison is divided into a numerical part on stability margins as well as operational windows and an experimental validation of the expected performance improvement based on a full-scale testing on site with a crane rated to 250 metric tons. Such a crane represents the typical target for the new control method using a combination of active and passive hydraulic actuation on the main winch. The active hydraulic actuation is a hydrostatic transmission with variable-displacement pumps and variable-displacement motors. The new controller employs feedforward control of the motors’ displacement so that the window of operation is increased and, simultaneously, oscillations in the system are markedly reduced.
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