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Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2017

Filed:

Mar. 11, 2016
Applicant:

Transocean Sedco Forex Ventures Limited, George Town, Grand Cayman, KY;

Inventors:

Trenton Martin, Kingwood, TX (US);

David Hollier, Katy, TX (US);

Assignee:

Transocean Sedco Forex Ventures Limited, George Town, Grand, KY;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 30/18 (2012.01); G05B 17/02 (2006.01); G06F 17/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 30/18027 (2013.01); G05B 17/02 (2013.01); B60W 2400/00 (2013.01); B60W 2520/105 (2013.01); B60W 2900/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods for determining if a vessel is experiencing a drive-off event, identifying a subsystem causing the drive-off event, and controlling a vessel to correct the drive-off event are disclosed. The determining may include processing, with a processor of the dynamic positioning control system, a modeled vessel motion and a measured vessel motion to determine whether there is a discrepancy between the modeled vessel motion and the measured vessel motion. The dynamic positioning (DP) control system may then take action to control vessel motion based, at least in part, on the processing of the modeled vessel motion and the measured vessel motion.


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