System and method for dynamically balancing loads on legs supporting a jack up rig platform
AssigneeElectronic Power Design, Inc.
InventorJohn Bradford Janik
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A system is disclosed including but not limited to a jack up processor in data communication with each for dynamically balancing loads in real time on a plurality of legs supporting a jack up rig platform having a plurality of gear box motors on the plurality of legs. A processor reads data from sensors on gear box motors on the legs and selects a stored torque profile from a computer readable medium based on the load data from the sensors; and sends the torque profile to the plurality of gearboxes. A computer readable medium and neural network are disclosed for dynamically balancing loads on the plurality of legs in real time.
Claims5
A method comprising:
- sending a torque profile over a first unidirectional data link to a plurality of platform legs to raise and lower each of the plurality of platform legs independently;
- and
- receiving load data, over a second unidirectional data link from each one of the plurality of platform legs, wherein the torque profile balances a load between each of the plurality of legs.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.