Offshore platforms are widely used to explore, drill, produce, store and transport ocean resources, and are usually subjected to environmental loading, which can lead to deck facility failure and platform fatigue failure, inefficient operation and even crew discomfort. In order to ensure the reliability and safety of offshore platforms, it is important to explore effective ways of suppressing the vibration of offshore platforms.
This book provides a brief overview of passive, semi-active and active control schemes to deal with vibration of offshore platforms. It then comprehensively and systematically discusses the recent advances in active systems with optimal, sliding model, delayed feedback and network-based control. Intended for readers interested in vibration control and ocean engineering, it is particularly useful for researchers, engineers, and graduate students in the fields of system and control community, vibration control, ocean engineering, as well as electrical and electronic engineering.
Professor Qing-Long Han is a leading researcher at the international level in the field of Control Theory and Control Engineering. He has published over three hundred and sixty (360) fully-refereed papers in prestigious journals and leading conferences, two research-based books (monographs), one research-based book chapter, and edited three conference proceedings and four special issues. In May 2016, he was appointed Distinguished Professor at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. In March 2010, he was appointed a prestigious Chair by China's Ministry of Education, 'Chang Jiang (Yangtze River) Scholar Chair Professor' in recognition of his outstanding contributions to Control Theory and Control Engineering. In August 2011, the Talents Coordination Committee of Shanxi Province of China confirmed that he was selected and appointed as '100 Talents Program' Chair Professor due to his outstanding contributions to Control Theory and Control Engineering. In September 2013, October 2014, and May 2015, he was selected and appointed 'Overseas Distinguished Professor' by Shanghai Education Committee, Shanghai Municipality, China. He was also appointed Chair Professor at many universities in China.
