Title
Advanced Infrastructure Modelling System (AIMS)

CoPED ID
9c802d88-3ee6-4577-9d80-e5e96465b2bd

Status
Closed


Value
£191,322

Start Date
March 1, 2017

End Date
Feb. 28, 2018

Description

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It is difficult and expensive to detect potential defects within off-shore wind turbines. Failures, when they occur are catastrophic and expensive. Support vessels can cost £250K per day and other losses can extend costs of failure into £millions. The AIMS project will demonstrate the feasibility of a system of static and mobile sensors, to detect and mitigate the occurrence of faults within the structure and machinery of the wind turbine before a catastrophic failure occurs. Our proposal is first use of static sensors on a wind turbine to detect small deflections and vibrations to the structure to localise a potential failure. Our solution allows for these sensors to report this to nodes connected to client operations as well as launching a UAV to perform a visual check, safely and securely in a hostile environment. This project seeks to develop the backbone of a system which can initially mitigate the issue of failure on a wind turbine, however we foresee that the system may have other cross functional application in the energy, transport and construction industries which we will detail in a road map report at the end of the project.

Intrepid Minds Ltd LEAD_ORG
Intrepid Minds Ltd PARTICIPANT_ORG
Manufacturing Technology Centre PARTICIPANT_ORG

Adam Smith PM_PER
Adam Smith PM_PER

Subjects by relevance
  1. Wind energy
  2. Wind turbines
  3. Turbines
  4. Wind power stations
  5. Catastrophes
  6. Safety and security

Extracted key phrases
  1. Advanced Infrastructure Modelling System
  2. Shore wind turbine
  3. AIMS project
  4. Potential failure
  5. Catastrophic failure
  6. Potential defect
  7. Static sensor
  8. Expensive
  9. Difficult
  10. Mobile sensor
  11. Road map report
  12. Support vessel
  13. System
  14. Cost
  15. Pound;250 K

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UKRI project entry

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