Developments in subsea power and telecommunication cables detection: Part 1 – Visual and hydroacoustic tracking

Szyrowski, Tomasz; Sharma, Sanjay; Sutton, Robert I.; Kennedy, G.A.

doi:10.3723/ut.31.123

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“…All methods described in Part 1 (Szyrowski et al, 2013a) and herein suffer limitations. Researchers and engineers attempt to overcome these restrictions by means of multi-sensor data fusion.…”

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Developments in subsea power and telecommunication cables detection: Part 2 – Electromagnetic detection

Szyrowski¹,

Sharma²,

Sutton³

et al. 2013

uw tech: int j soc uw tech

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The detection and maintenance of power and telecommunication subsea cables are often difficult and dangerous. Globally, engineers have approached such tasks using different methods. Although the subject is of great importance, there is no single universally accepted method or even agreement about existing methods. This review focuses on electromagnetic detection as a widely used technique for detection of buried cables.The paper reviews practical methods used in electromagnetic detection of subsea cables and ferromagnetic objects. It begins describing the use of simple searching coils carried by a diver and concludes with techniques that implement magnetometers on autonomous survey platforms.The methods used in electromagnetic subsea cable detection are often based on simple and established technologies. Despite this, detection of general ferromagnetic objects in the subsea environment is an active area of research. This review also describes developments in underwater unexploded ordnance detection, which can be technologically transferred to the detection of power and telecommunication cables.

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“…In Part 1 of the present paper, the review focused on visual and acoustic detection (Szyrowski et al, 2013a). Despite their advances and benefits, visual tracking and hydroacoustic methods suffer limitations in the case of buried cables (Ortiz et al, 2009;Capus et al, 2010).…”

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confidence: 99%

Developments in subsea power and telecommunication cables detection: Part 2 – Electromagnetic detection

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Sharma²,

Sutton³

et al. 2013

uw tech: int j soc uw tech

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“…U nderwater cable connections are key pieces of equipment in topside and subsea facilities for electro-hydraulic control channel underwater production units, which provide underwater communications, power, and pulling forces to marine equipment, marine drag systems, and mooring systems (Szyrowski et al, 2013a(Szyrowski et al, , 2013b. However, underwater cables must operate under rough marine conditions, and at the seafloor, they are exposed to flow scouring, making them apt to bend or warp, which could result in underwater device failure.…”

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Study of a Novel Underwater Cable With Whole Cable Monitoring

Chen¹,

Xu²,

Chen³

et al. 2016

mar technol soc j

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A B S T R A C TThis paper describes a novel concept for detecting and tracking underwater cables that differs from common detection methods, including visual, acoustic and magnetic detection, which are based on a survey platform, such as remotely operated vehicles and autonomous underwater vehicles, and have high costs and require long-time monitoring. The proposed detection method can be performed in locations that are difficult to observe using cameras without the use of magnetic fields. The concept relies on low-cost flex sensors that provide underwater, realtime, whole cable detection. Building off of this concept, a detection system and an error analysis system were incorporated, which includes the characteristics of the flex sensors, the mounting structure for the flex sensors, and the underwater cable as well as the 2-D cable bend model and a water tank test. The detected data set, which was rendered on an observation monitor, provided visual feedback regarding any bending or warping problems. To evaluate the detection accuracy, mean absolute error and similarity analyses were performed using the observational data and sensor data obtained from the water tank test. The results of these analyses showed strong agreement between the fitted curve to the detected data and the observational curve, indicating acceptable error. These results demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed system for effective underwater cable detection. Thus, the results of this investigation clearly reveal the potential of the novel sensing technique for practical underwater cable detection and monitoring applications. However, the 2-D cable bending detection model is not suitable for 3-D bending or torsion, which will be considered in future research.

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“…The subsea cables need to be periodically checked, localised and repaired for faults. Localisation of the subsea cables is a difficult and costly task as dynamic sea environments keep on changing the cables' initial position and their burial depth [1].…”

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Point localisation of a subsea cable using particle filters

Szyrowski

Sharma

Sutton

et al. 2014

2014 UKACC International Conference on Control (CONTROL)

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Point localisation of subsea cables are necessary as a starting point in the search of a particular section or whole length of a cable and become a demanding and challenging task in an uncertain environment such as sea. The authors propose a novel method of using particle filters for estimating the position of a subsea cable in a highly uncertain environment. The method was tested on data collected from a buried cable in the Baltic sea, Denmark and shown to have close approximation to the true location of the subsea cable. The method can be used to localise a subsea cable in an off-shore noisy and uncertain environment and provides an inexpensive alternative to the use of a diver or a remotely operated platform.

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Developments in subsea power and telecommunication cables detection: Part 1 – Visual and hydroacoustic tracking

Cited by 27 publications

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Developments in subsea power and telecommunication cables detection: Part 2 – Electromagnetic detection

Developments in subsea power and telecommunication cables detection: Part 2 – Electromagnetic detection

Study of a Novel Underwater Cable With Whole Cable Monitoring

Point localisation of a subsea cable using particle filters

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