System and method for providing information on fuel savings, safe operation, and maintenance by real-time predictive monitoring and predictive controlling of aerodynamic and hydrodynamic environmental internal/external forces, hull stresses, motion with six degrees of freedom, and the location of marine structure

A marine energy harvest structure, comprising:

• one or more sensors for measuring environmental force applied to the marine energy harvest structure;
• one or more controllers for adjusting posture of the marine energy harvest structure;
• a database storing a set of prestored response data, said response data being representative of one or more predictive response characteristic of the marine energy harvest structure resulting from the environmental force applied to the marine energy harvest structure;
• and
• a processor configured to:
• obtain environmental force data, which is representative of external force applied to a marine energy harvest structure, via one or more sensors;
• query the database to obtain a response data that corresponds to the obtained environmental force data, wherein said response data identified from the database being representative of one or more predictive response characteristic of the marine energy harvest structure resulting from the external force applied to the marine energy harvest structure;
• determine one or more operation parameters for operating one or more controllers provided in the marine energy harvest structure based on the identified response data, and operating said one or more controllers of the marine energy harvest structure to adjust posture of the marine energy harvest structure to improve an energy efficiency operational indicator of the marine energy harvest structure;
• measure the energy efficiency operational indicator of the marine energy harvest structure following the operation of said one or more controllers according to the determined one or more operation parameters;
• and
• recalibrate the identified response data based on the change in the energy efficiency operational indicator and updating the database with the re-calibrated response data.

A marine energy harvest structure control system, comprising:

• a remote weather server storing a predefined set of weather measurement data;
• a plurality of marine energy harvest structures, each marine energy harvest structure having a terminal for transmitting data to and receiving data from the remote weather server, at least one sensor for measuring external force applied to the marine energy harvest structure, and at least one control unit for controlling posture of the marine energy harvest structure, wherein each marine energy harvest structure is configured to (1) operate the controller to adjust posture of the marine energy harvest structure based on the weather measurement data received from the remote weather server;
• (2) measure external force applied to the marine energy harvest structure;
• (3) measuring energy efficiency operational indicator of the marine energy harvest structure following the operation of said one or more controllers according to the determined one or more operation parameters;
• and (4) transmit the measured external force data to the remote weather server to update the weather measurement data stored therein.

A marine energy harvest structure, comprising:

• an energy converter;
• a mooring line coupled to the energy converter;
• one or more sensors for measuring tension on the mooring line;
• one or more controllers for retracting and releasing the mooring line to adjust the tension on the mooring line;
• a database storing a set of prestored response data, said response data being representative of predictive change in tension on the mooring line resulting from external environmental force applied to the marine energy harvest structure;
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• a processor configured to:
• measure the external environmental force being applied to the marine energy harvest structure and obtain the response data corresponding to the measured external environmental force from the database;
• operate said one or more controllers to adjust tension on the mooring line to minimize a change in the tension on the mooring line from the external environmental force;
• measure the tension on the mooring line and an energy efficiency operating indicator of the marine energy harvest structure following the operation of said one or more controllers;
• and
• recalibrate the obtained response data based on the changes in tension of the mooring line and the energy efficiency operating indicator of the marine energy harvest structure, and update the database with the re-calibrated response data.