According to the problem of screw fracture of electric submersible pump unit in Shengtuo oilfield, the reasons for the screw fracture are analyzed from three aspects: material, strength and pretightening force. The preliminary result shows that the imbalanced pretightening force of screw is the main reason of screw fracture. By means of Ansys software, the static and modal analyses for the elec...

A set of simplified boundary conditions for a flexible beam connected to a rigid body at one end and free at the other end is presented and applied to the case of a fluidconveying, fluid-immersed pipe. These boundary conditions represent an analytically tractable approximation to those of a submersible which uses a combination of jet action and flutter instability induced tail motion to produce...

We propose a scalable state estimator with wave filter for surface vessels. The filter is shown to be either globally or locally exponentially stable depending on configuration. Performance is illustrated using actual data from a full scale semi-submersible drilling rig.

The vision of exploring extraterrestrial water findings employing a remotely operated submersible, as proposed by JPL/NASA for the investigation of the possible ocean underneath the frozen crust of Jupiter’s moon Europa, is now taking a step further into fulfilment. The Ångström Space Technology Centre has developed a sophisticated vehicle concept based on microtechnology for most of the naviga...

Unimolecular submersible nanomachines (USNs) bearing light-driven motors and fluorophores are synthesized. NMR experiments demonstrate that the rotation of the motor is not quenched by the fluorophore and that the motor behaves in the same manner as the corresponding motor without attached fluorophores. No photo or thermal decomposition is observed. Through careful design of control molecules w...

The aim of this project was to develop the state estimation system for an autonomous underwater vehicle called Kambara. This project took place at the Research School of Information Sciences in cooperation with the Department of Engineering at the ANU. The purpose of the state estimation system was the filtering of data from a triaxial accelerometer, rate gyroscope, depth sensor and compass/inc...