A wireless crane to vessel locating system for sea swell compensation

Nikolaiev A, Kirsch F, Vossiek M, Shu X, Bohn C, Duden H (2014)

Publication Language: English

Publication Status: Published

Publication Type: Conference contribution, Conference Contribution

Publication year: 2014

Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

Article Number: 6899956

ISBN: 9788393152520

DOI: 10.1109/MIKON.2014.6899956

Abstract

Sea swell causes significant risk in transferring people and material to offshore constructions and oftentimes hamper the accessibility completely. The weather window where a construction is accessible can be enlarged notably if a crane is equipped with a sea swell compensation system. For a crane to vessel swell compensation system it is required to measure the 3D position of the crane load handling device relative to the deck of ship precisely, reliably and in real-time. In this paper a novel wireless crane to vessel locating system is introduced. Several secondary radar units that are mounted on the ship deck are measuring the distance to a responder unit attached to the crane boom. The 3D localization is based on a fusion of secondary radar distance measurements and the data from an inertial sensor platform. The fusion is done by a quaternion based extended Kalman filter which implements both multilateration and strapdown inertial navigation techniques. Real measurement data acquired with the inertial platform on a ship and radar data measured with the realized local positioning radar onshore are fed in a PC based simulation of the complete system. The real data simulations prove that the developed real time locating system provides the required position information precisely and reliably. By this it is shown that the novel wireless locating system is well suited for sea swell compensation equipment.

Authors with CRIS profile

Anton Nikolaiev Lehrstuhl für Hochfrequenztechnik Fabian Kirsch Lehrstuhl für Hochfrequenztechnik Martin Vossiek Lehrstuhl für Hochfrequenztechnik

Involved external institutions

ep4 offshore GmbH DE Germany (DE) Technische Universität Clausthal / Clausthal University of Technology DE Germany (DE)

How to cite

APA:

Nikolaiev, A., Kirsch, F., Vossiek, M., Shu, X., Bohn, C., & Duden, H. (2014). A wireless crane to vessel locating system for sea swell compensation. In Proceedings of the 2014 20th International Conference on Microwaves, Radar and Wireless Communications, MIKON 2014. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..

MLA:

Nikolaiev, Anton, et al. "A wireless crane to vessel locating system for sea swell compensation." Proceedings of the 2014 20th International Conference on Microwaves, Radar and Wireless Communications, MIKON 2014 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2014.

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