See this article (in Norwegian).
WP2.5 Highlighted at UiA Website
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SFI Newsletter and Twitter
SFI Offshore Mechatronics now has a monthly newsletter. Sign up at https://sfi.mechatronics.no/?page_id=24 to receive regular updates and information about the centre.
We are also on Twitter at https://twitter.com/sfimechatronics, Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/SFIOffshoreMechatronics and LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/groups/2556388. Here you can continuously follow activities about and related to the centre.
We can be contacted on Lync / Skype For Business at: sfi@mechatronics.no.
Next main event: Annual SFI Offshore Mechatronics conference, Grimstad, 10-11 May, 2016. Sign up at https://sfi.mechatronics.no/?p=416.
UiA and Teknova Visit Klüber Lubrication in München
From right to Left: Ari-Pekka Holm (Klüber), Patrick Wittmeyer (Klüber), Carolin Schmidt (Klüber), Morten Kollerup Bak (UiA), Klaus Schöffel (Teknova), Thomas Meyer (Teknova), Lindsay Janke (Klüber), Geir Hovland (UiA).
Klüber Lubrication, Teknova and UiA had a full-day meeting in München on January 27. Klüber are world-leading specialists in lubrication and tribology competences, and bring mechanical engineers and chemists together. Sensors for lubricant condition monitoring were discussed and UiA and Teknova were shown the extensive labs and test facilities available for the SFI partners. Klüber’s main interests within the SFI are mainly linked to WP5 Condition Monitoring. Several areas for future collaboration within Condition Monitoring were identified.
NOV Receives NFR Funding
National Oilwell Varco AS (SFI Offshore Mechatronics Partner) received 15 MNOK funding from the Research Council for the project “Remote Drill Floor Operation”. See http://www.forskningsradet.no/prognett-demo2000/Nyheter/65_mill_kroner_til_teknologi_for_lavere_kostnader_pa_norsk_sokkel/1254014695012/p1228296565486.
Visit to Klüber Lubrication, München
A delegation from UiA, Teknova and MacGregor will visit the SFI Partner Klüber Lubrication in München on January 27. The Agenda for the visit is as follows:
* Introduction participants and the program of the day
* Introduction SFI Offshore Mechatronics & WP5
* Introduction Klüber Tribology competences
* Tour Mechanico-Dynamical test field
* Sensors for lubricant condition monitoring
* Discussion to sensors
* Presenting Klüber R&D
* Tour (chemical) Analytics & Service Group
Statoil Picks MacGregor Mooring Systems for Hywind
Cargotec’s MacGregor has won an order for substructure connection mooring systems for Statoil’s Hywind pilot park in Scotland, the world’s first floating offshore wind farm.
See this link.
GCE NODE, Skeie Technology and partners have established a Greenhouse for new ideas
To get hold of the smart people with good ideas, GCE NODE and Skeie Technology have with good partners established a Greenhouse – see more here and here.
Velkommen med Bjarne Skeie og Anne-Grete Ellingsen.
Kamilla Sharma, Innoventus Sør,
Varaordfører Tore Askildsen Vest-Agder Fylkeskommune,
Dag Nordbøe NOV,
Carl Dvergsnes, Sparebanken Sør, Regionbanksjef Bedriftsmarked
Avd: Bedriftsmarked Vest-Agder
Andreas Eriksen bedriftsrådgiver DNB
Foto: Kjell Inge Søreide
IECON 2016: Special Session on Offshore Mechatronics
Associate Professor Michael Ruderman at the University of Agder will serve as Vice-chair of IEEE IES Technical Committee on Motion Control for 2016-2017. A Special Session (SS) on Offshore Mechatronics for the next IEEE IECON to be held in Florence will be proposed for IECON 2016. The deadline for the papers submission is March 15, 2016.
Call For Papers:
We are very pleased to announce a Special Session on Controlled Systems in Offshore Mechatronics which will be proposed at the 42st Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON2016). The purpose of the Special Session is to bring together prominent researchers in the fields related to Offshore Mechatronics and to provide a forum for exchanging and following up the ideas, achieved results, and recent trends in the domain. The topics of interest include but are not limited to:
– Hydraulic and electromechanical actuators in Offshore Mechatronics;
– Motion compensation, heave compensation, and related technology;
– Robotic, autonomy, and handling systems in Offshore Mechatronics;
– Controlled valves, winches, and components for Offshore Mechatronics;
– Well control and controlled drilling technologies.
In view of your field of expertise and activities, we would like to invite you to participate in this Special Session by submitting the contributed paper(s). Please consider also to spread this information among your PhD students and potentially interested colleagues. We much appreciate in advance you give us a non-binding reply on your interest/intention to participate.
The deadline for IECON2016 regular paper submission is March 15, 2016. For more details on IECON2016 and author’s relevant information please follow up http://www.iecon2016.org
We are looking forward and hope meeting you at IECON2016 in Florence!
Kind regards,
Organizers of Special Session “Controlled Systems in Offshore Mechatronics”
Torben Ole Andersen (WP1) and Michael Ruderman (WP3)
IECON 2015: Best Presentation Award
The industrial PhD candidate Witold Pawlus received the best presentation award at the IECON 2015 conference in the session “TS-140 Electrical Drive Applications”. The paper presented at the conference was: W. Pawlus, D. Frick, M. Morari, G. Hovland and M. Choux, “Drivetrain Design Optimization for Electrically Actuated Systems via Mixed Integer Programing”, 41st Annual Conf. of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON2015), Yokohama, Japan, Nov. 9-12, 2015.
The paper was a collaboration between the Automatic Control Laboratory at ETH Zürich, the SFI Partner MHWirth and the University of Agder.
SFI Offshore Mechatronics: Public Outreach
The SFI Offshore Mechatronics centre was presented at Kristiansand Katedralskole Gimle (KKG) on November 11, 2015. More than hundred students visited our stand which demonstrated robotic automation. Since the SFI is an 8-year project, maybe some of these students will become researchers in the centre one day …