New Methodology and Instrumental System for Floating Structures Monitoring and Analysis

Floating structures are widely used in Marine Civil Engineering constructions, offshore and port operations. Safe operation of those structures requires sensing, monitoring and control systems able to deal not only with the physical parameters that affect to the system behaviour, but also with others parameters related to human interaction, since they are frequently manually operated. Any failure in these operations has a very high economic impact, so detailed previous studies and simulations are needed. In this paper, it has been developed a new methodology and an instrumental system for floating structures response analysis, scalable for field and laboratory. This new approach conjugates control, monitoring and wireless communication systems in a real time basis, offering the possibility to register and simulate all the parameters involved in operations with floating structures, including human interaction. The system developed is modular. An actual implementation of the system and positive results of the tests conducted are shown.