Review of mooring design for floating wave energy converters

S Xu, S Wang, CG Soares - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
A review of some representative floating wave energy converter (WEC) projects in the world,
including the wave energy capturing technology, development history, main dimensions and …

[HTML][HTML] Sea state identification using machine learning—A comparative study based on in-service data from a container vessel

M Mittendorf, UD Nielsen, HB Bingham, G Storhaug - Marine Structures, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper is concerned with a machine learning-based approach for sea state estimation
using the wave buoy analogy. In-situ sensor data of an advancing medium-size container …

Uncertainties in long-term wave modelling

EM Bitner-Gregersen, T Waseda, J Parunov, S Yim… - Marine structures, 2022 - Elsevier
Uncertainties of wave data and models got increasing attention in the last decades by the
marine industry because of their importance for safety at sea. Improved knowledge about …

A review on data‐centric decision tools for offshore wind operation and maintenance activities: Challenges and opportunities

Y Hadjoudj, R Pandit - Energy Science & Engineering, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This paper reviews state‐of‐the‐art numerical tools for the operation and maintenance
(O&M) of offshore wind farms, focusing on decision support models for maintenance …

Application of a deep learning-based discrete weather data continuousization model in ship route optimization

Z Wu, S Wang, Q Yuan, N Lou, S Qiu, L Bo, X Chen - Ocean Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
When ships sail across oceans, weather and sea conditions are the key factors affecting the
safety and economy of ship navigation. Thus, obtaining accurate weather forecast data is …

Observations of rogue seas in the Southern Ocean

A Toffoli, A Alberello, H Clarke, F Nelli, A Benetazzo… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
We report direct observations of surface waves from a stereo camera system along with
concurrent measurements of wind speed during an expedition across the Southern Ocean in …

[HTML][HTML] Simultaneous sea state estimation and transfer function tuning using a network of dynamically positioned ships

REG Mounet, UD Nielsen, AH Brodtkorb… - Applied Ocean …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents a study focused on wave spectrum estimation in practical scenarios
where multiple ships operate in the same geographical area, potentially forming a network …

Dead reckoning of dynamically positioned ships: Using an efficient recurrent neural network

R Skulstad, G Li, TI Fossen, B Vik… - IEEE Robotics & …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
When a ship experiences a loss of position reference systems, its navigation system typically
enters a mode known as dead reckoning (DR) to maintain an estimate of its position …

Uncertainty-informed ship voyage optimization approach for exploiting safety, energy saving and low carbon routes

Q Yuan, S Wang, J Zhao, TH Hsieh, Z Sun, B Liu - Ocean Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Voyage optimization has been an effective way to find safe, energy-saving and low carbon
routes, but it strongly depends on the accuracy of the weather forecast data that exists the …

Statistical models for improving significant wave height predictions in offshore operations

S Emmanouil, SG Aguilar, GF Nane, JJ Schouten - Ocean Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
Installation and maintenance strategies regarding offshore wind farm operations involve
extensive logistics. The main focus is the right temporal and spatial placement of personnel …