The ATLANTIS undertaking, led by INESC TEC, with the participation of EDP NEW and the help of different technological companions, has accomplished the primary spherical of checks with autonomous robots on a floating offshore wind platform in Portugal.
The demonstration occurred at Ocean Winds’ WindFloat Atlantic, the world’s first semi-submersible floating offshore wind farm, which options three generators and has a capability of 25.4 MW, sufficient to generate power for 25,000 households a yr.
The staff examined the usage of robots for inspection and monitoring operations. Particularly, utilizing autonomous autos was demonstrated for visible and thermographic inspections and assessments of the construction utilizing multi-domain maps, stated INESC TEC.
“It is a vital accomplishment, not solely as a result of we had been the primary on this planet to reveal robots working autonomously and concurrently in a pre-commercial floating wind farm but additionally as a result of we’ve opened the doorways for robotics and synthetic intelligence to play a number one function in inspecting and sustaining any such important infrastructure,” stated Andry Maykol Pinto, a researcher at INESC TEC and professor on the School of Engineering of the College of Porto (FEUP).
RAVEN and NAUTILUS are two examples of the autonomous robotic options obtainable on the Atlantis Check Middle, which is a take a look at platform arrange in Viana do Castelo, Portugal.
The middle was created as a part of the ATLANTIS undertaking to reveal autonomous robotic applied sciences and options (underwater, floor, and aerial) which are important for the inspection and upkeep of offshore wind farms, INESC TEC stated.
The 2 autonomous robotic options can be utilized for aerial and underwater inspection duties of a number of parts, specifically the mooring traces, the foundations, the floating construction, and the wind turbine.
RAVEN, a drone able to making, for instance, visible, thermal, and three-dimensional representations of the complete turbine, and NAUTILUS, an autonomous vessel that’s geared up for multi-domain inspection and monitoring.
“The usage of autonomous autos is anticipated to decrease Operations and Upkeep (O&M) bills by 20% whereas additionally enhancing power manufacturing reliability,” stated João Formiga, Director of Renewable Power Applied sciences at EDP NEW.
The milestone has been reached at a time when Portugal is making ready to begin phased auctions as a part of its plan to succeed in 10 GW of offshore wind capability.
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This summer time, an inter-ministerial working group, arrange by the Portuguese authorities as a part of the method of organising the nation’s first offshore wind tender, proposed placing the areas out to tender in phases, with three areas totalling 3.5 GW to be supplied this yr, by means of a number of aggressive procedures, and for the remaining capability to be allotted in subsequent phases till 2030, reaching 10 GW.
The three areas that the group pinpointed for the primary tender(s) are situated in Viana do Castelo (1 GW), Leixões (500 MW), and Figueira da Foz (2 GW).
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