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.
Month: November 2015
Klüber’s mechanical-dynamic test possibilities
NTNU, Department of Production and Quality Engineering
Activities in the SFI (WP2,WP3 and WP4) will use the Robotics Labs at NTNU, Department of Production and Quality Engineering. The work in these work-packages will be a collaboration between NTNU, UiA, AUC and RWTH Aachen.
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 …
Annual SFI Offshore Mechatronics Conference, November 19, 2015
Place: Campus Grimstad, Norway. Auditorium A2 135.
Date: November 19, 2015
Time: 09:00 – 11:30 (Part 1, Open) and 12:30-16:00 (Part 2, Closed)
45 participants attended the first annual SFI Offshore Mechatronics conference on Campus Grimstad. The first part consisted of 4 open presentations while the second part (for SFI partners only) presented the current status of the 7 work-packages. The program for the conference was as follows:
Part 1:
09:00 – 09:30 – Violet Leavers (CEO), V4L Group, UK: New Trends in Condition Based Monitoring.
09:30 – 10:00 Torben Andersen (Professor, AAU): Results from the Fluid Power and Mechatronics Systems Lab at Aalborg University.
10:00 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 11:00 Anne Grete Ellingsen (CEO GCENode): Integrated operations next phase – The service providers and equipment suppliers integrated in the drilling and operations in real-time.
11:00 – 11:30 Jan-Einar Gravdal (Senior Research Scientist) and Kristin Flornes (Senior Vice President), IRIS: A) Presentation of the NORTEX Data Science Cluster, B) Lessons learnt from the mid-term evaluation of SFI DrillWell.
Lunch 11:30 – 12:30
Part 2 (for SFI partners only):
Presentation of the 2016 plans for the individual work-packages WP1-WP7.
WP7 12:30 – 13:00
WP1 13:00 – 13:30
WP2/4 13:30 – 14:00
Break 14:00 – 14:30
WP3 14:30 – 15:00
WP5 15:00 – 15:30
WP6 15:30 – 16:00
Dinner from 16:15
Fluid Power and Mechatronic Systems, Aalborg University
Activities in the SFI plan to use the Fluid Power and Mechatronic Systems Lab at the Department of Energy Technology at Aalborg University in WP1. The work in WP1 will be performed in collaboration mainly between AAU and UiA.
WP leaders on Tour: PhD recruitment
The WP leaders for WP 1-6 used all Wednesday Nov 4. to visit the four main industry partners in the Agder region: MHWirth, NOV, Cameron Sense and MacGregor.
The purpose for this tour was to inform about the main research tasks in the project, get feedback for adjustment of the 2016 work-plans and to inform about the possibilities for employees in the companies to apply for PhD-positions within the different work-packages. The industry experience will be important to get a relevant research output, and applicants from industry partners are encouraged to apply for the PhD positions in the SFI Offshore Mechatronics centre.
The first PhDs are already in place, and several positions will be announced in 2016.
WP Leaders trying out the training simulator at NOV (Left: WP6 Leader Baltasar Beferull Lozano. Right: WP2/WP4 Leader Olav Egeland).