Vibration suppression and output constraint of a variable length drilling riser system.

Abstract In this paper, we mainly concentrate on the control issue of a variable length drilling riser under condition of unknown disturbances and output constraint. The studied flexible drilling riser system with variable length, variable tension, variable speed and restricted boundary output is essentially a nonlinear distributed parameter system. For achieving the vibration suppression and ensuring the boundary output within the constrained range, an appropriate control scheme with output signal barrier is put forward by integrating boundary control method, barrier Lyapunov function with finite-dimensional backstepping technique, where disturbance observer is employed for coping with the boundary disturbance. Moreover, the Lyapunov's synthetic method is applied for the steadiness research of the studied flexible drilling riser system, and the simulations are presented to display the usefulness of proposed control scheme. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]