Robotic Systems for the Inspection of Offshore Wind Farms

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Title
Robotic Systems for the Inspection of Offshore Wind Farms

CoPED ID
54f04627-79c1-4bcb-958b-aeab9dd73e44

Status
Closed

Funders

Value
No funds listed.

Start Date
June 26, 2018

End Date
Nov. 30, 2019

Description

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The remote inspection and asset management of offshore wind farms and their connection to shore, is an industry which will be worth up to £2 billion annually by 2025 in the UK alone. 80% to 90% of the cost of offshore Operation and Maintenance according to the Crown Estate is generated by access requirements: such as the need to get engineers and technicians to remote sites to evaluate a problem and decide what action to undertake. Such inspection takes place in a remote and hazardous environment and requires highly trained personnel, of which there is likely to be a shortage in coming years. This project will investigate the use of robotic systems for the inspection of offshore assets. A specific use case of the inspection of a live HVDC sub-station will be used to investigate autonomous mission planning and coordination of multiple robots operating in a dark, GPS denied environments.

Simon Watson SUPER_PER
Elisabeth Welburn STUDENT_PER

Subjects by relevance
  1. Robots
  2. Inspection and revision
  3. Estates of the crown
  4. Robotics
  5. Wind farms
  6. Costs

Extracted key phrases
  1. Offshore Wind Farms
  2. Remote inspection
  3. Robotic Systems
  4. Offshore asset
  5. Specific use case
  6. Offshore Operation
  7. Asset management
  8. Inspection
  9. Live hvdc sub
  10. Autonomous mission planning
  11. Hazardous environment
  12. Crown Estate
  13. Access requirement
  14. Multiple robot
  15. Connection

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