Innovative Concepts

Product / Service

Generation, modeling and evaluation of innovative concepts [TRL1-4] to reduce costs and increase the useful life of offshore renewables

Main Contact: Pablo Ruiz-Minguela

Subproducts

Description

Advanced services based on software tools for the evaluation and decision making of innovative concepts in early stages of development. Park layout, device or subsystem level. Based on metrics that evaluate global benefits (cost-benefit).

 


 

Projects / PhD Thesis

  • OPERA – Sea Operating Experience to Reduce Wave Energy Cost
  • DTOceanPlus – Advanced Design Tools for Ocean Energy Systems Innovation, Development and Deployment
  • SEMC – Submerged Electrical & Mechanical Connector
  • An International Evaluation and Guidance Framework for Ocean Energy Technology

 


 

Publications

 


 

Resources

Description

Conceptual and detailed design of automatic systems for inspection and maintenance.

 


 

Projects / PhD Thesis

  • Robot de Inspección por Ultrasonidos para líneas de fondeo CIRUS (VICINAY CADENAS, S. A. – subcontratación dentro del Programa INTEK del Gobierno Vasco)
  • Diseño modular de manipuladores paralelos reconfigurables de topología variable. MoMaR (DPI2015-67626-P)

 


 

Publications

  • Synthesis and Design of a Novel 3T1R fully-Parallel Manipulator. Salgado, O.; Altuzarra, O.; Petuya, V.; Hernández, A. Journal of Mechanical Design 130. Pp. 042304-1 042304-8. 2008
  • Designing parallel manipulators: from specifications to a real prototype. A. Hernández, O. Altuzarra, O. Salgado, Ch. Pinto, V. Petuya. Industrial Robot: An International Journal 39. Pp. 500-512, 2012
  • A robot for non-destructive testing weld inspection of offshore mooring chains. A. Hernández, O. Altuzarra, V. Petuya, Ch. Pinto, E. Amezua. International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems 15, 2018
  • Frequency Domain Modelling of a Coupled System of Floating Structure and Mooring Lines: an application to a Wave Energy Converter. I. Touzon, V. Nava, Z. Gao, V. Petuya. Ocean Engineering 220. Pp. 108498, 2021
  • A robot for non-destructive testing weld inspection of offshore mooring chains. A. Hernández, O. Altuzarra, V. Petuya, Ch. Pinto, E. Amezua. International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems 15, 2018

 


 

Resources