Robust and Automatic Drilling Model Configuration

Offentlig prosjektsammendrag

The goal of the project is to remove or reduce the need for manual configuration of the systems used for drilling automation. Today drilling automation systems need to be manually configured and several parameters are required for the systems to behave correctly. This need for detailed input usually reduces the usability and flexibility of automated drilling system and hinders their large scale deployment. The main configuration component correspond to the detailed description of the elements involved in the drilling operation: the fluid system or the drill-string geometry are for example complex structures mandatory for reliable simulation of the on-going drilling process. It is the main objective of this project to automate the configuration process, and therefore eliminate the need for manual inputs. As a first goal we will develop simpler models that emulates the more complex models used in automation as state of the art and at the same time design methods to properly control the induced modelling errors. Those simplified models will be combined with the available measurements to automatically infer the configuration that should be used by the drilling automation system. The final goal is to gain knowledge on where to locate sensor data and to find out which sensor data is required to make a smooth and accurate configuration of the system.