World’s First Floating Wind Innovation Centre Opens
the strength, performance and reliability of dynamic subsea cables – a critical component of floating offshore wind farms.• A large-scale anchor test rig to test dynamic anchoring systems – another unique element of floating wind technology.• A floating offshore wind scale motion simulator, or Hexapod, capable of providing dynamic testing of scale structures and electrical & mooring connections in a simulated marine environment.• A virtual reality studio to allow engineers to envisage scenarios and challenges likely to be faced in the build out of future floating wind turbines
Equinor and Kongsberg Digital Team Up to Enhance Offshore Skills and Environmental Protection
with the maritime and offshore technology company Kongsberg Digital to boost its personnel skills to protect the environment, prevent offshore incidents, and perform holistic crisis management in advanced offshore operations.Keyto this collaboration is the deployment of four K-Sim Offshore simulators delivered by Kongsberg Digital. These will be integrated with KONGSBERG’s K-Pos Dynamic Positioning systems and NORBIT’s pioneering Oil Spill Detection system, Aptomar. According to Kongsberg Digital, the tailored configuration will not only enable offshore procedure training
Spanish Navy Adds Saab Seaeye ROV for Submarine Escape and Rescue
transporting heavy loads.Importantly, iCON gives clear and enhanced information to the operator and pilot whilst independently managing each device on the vehicle, including auto redundancy, ensuring the vehicle keeps working even with multiple equipment damage.Included in the procurement is a complete simulator system for pilot training that will simulate the operation of the Leopard during a rescue mission
Forum Delivers Three Work-class ROVs to Brazil's OceanPact
and fluid injection systems was also provided, FET added.Credit: Forum Energy TechnologiesThe ROVs were supplied with active heave compensated Dynacon launch and recovery systems (LARS), as well as associated surface power and control installations.As part of the scope, FET has also supplied a VMAX ROV Simulator configured with a complete XLX-C Console. According to FET, the simulator is provided with a host of training exercises, or ‘scenarios’, each designed to train and evaluate pilot competence in a variety of skills such as tether management, manipulator control and operation of tooling
Tech File: A Robotic Reach in Offshore Wind
uses dual, high speed CAN networks for rapid data transfer between sensors, controllers and actuators. This enables full motion compensation and station keeping accuracy.The company has developed a full-scale prototype, first tested onshore in 2017, both on a six degree of freedom ship-motion simulator STL has and on land at STL’s research facility in Cowes on the Isle of Wight, using real vessel motion data as input. Andreas says a vessel-based trial of this system was planned before the end of 2022.STL’s Neptune during onshore trials. Photo courtesy STLHaving developed Neptune,
A Robotic Reach in Offshore Wind
system uses dual, high-speed CAN networks for rapid data transfer between sensors, controllers, and actuators. This enables full motion compensation and station-keeping accuracy.The company has developed a full-scale prototype, first tested onshore in 2017, both on a six-degree of freedom ship-motion simulator STL has and on land at STL’s research facility in Cowes on the Isle of Wight, using real vessel motion data as input. Fechs says a vessel-based trial of this system was planned before the end of 2022.Having developed Neptune, STL decided to take the concept further. Why not a multi-axis articulate
Plymouth University, Kongsberg Digital Partner to 'Revolutionize' Floating Offshore Wind Ops
The University of Plymouth and Kongsberg Digital, a provider of software solutions to maritime, oil and gas, renewables, and utility sectors, have partnered up to create a new system they say could revolutionize the UK’s floating offshore wind sector."By combining cutting-edge simulator technology to provide a synthetic offshore wind environment in real-time and the university’s R&D expertise, the partnership aims to provide offshore wind project teams and crew with facilities to verify, test and optimize installation and maintenance projects," Kongsberg Digital said Tuesday.
Force Technology Debuts SimFlex Cloud Navigation Simulator Platform
Denmark's Force Technology launched SimFlex Cloud, a dedicated SaaS (Software as a Service) solution designed to offer realistic navigation training by providing global access to Force’s SimFlex simulator and the Den-Mark simulator engine and model library.Developed in-house with 25 years of navigation simulator innovation and experience at its core, SimFlex Cloud builds on the teaching value of Force Technology’s high-fidelity navigation simulators. As a cloud-based training solution, SimFlex also offers easy access to next-generation mixed reality simulation, using both Virtual
New EOD Workspace Simulator from Greensea, GRi
Greensea Systems has launched the new EOD Workspace Simulator. The new simulator, created in partnership with GRi Simulations, incorporates a physics engine based on actual subsea vehicle models which provides the realism needed to prepare operators, technicians, and other subject matter experts to be successful in critical real-world subsea environments when using EOD Workspace in the field. EOD Workspace Simulator will be offered for sale to military groups actively using EOD Workspace.“Operators using the simulator are flying EOD Workspace and the system is working exactly like it
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