SeaWynd: Autonomous Inspection of Seabed and Splash Zone Structures for Offshore Wind Arrays

海上风力涡轮机可能被水面附近所谓的飞溅区中的波浪效应腐蚀。由于极端的环境，很难看到这种损坏。目前，调度维护是基于粗略的近似结构寿命，而不是要求，这是昂贵的。SeaWynd旨在提供一个传感器有效载荷，远程调查这飞溅区，并提供高分辨率的数据集，从该数据集检测任何异常变化的涡轮机结构。这将降低管理海上风电场的运营和维护成本。该项目将涉及SeaWynd设备的开发和加固，并在一个运营的海洋可再生能源站点进行海上试验期间对其性能进行评估。

Offshore wind turbines can become corroded by wave effects in the so called splash zone near the water surface. Visualising this damage is difficult due to the extreme environment. Currently, scheduling maintenance is based on rough approximations of structure lifetime rather than requirements, which is expensive.SeaWynd aims to provide a sensor payload to remotely survey this splash zone and provide high resolution datasets from which to detect any abnormal changes to the turbine structure. This would reduce operation and maintenance costs for managing offshore wind farmsThis project will involve both the development and hardening of the SeaWynd device with an evaluation of its performance during a sea-trial at an operational marine renewable energy site.