《Robust adaptive horizontal vibration isolation of towed seismic streamers 》.pdf

J. Shanghai Jiaotong Univ. (Sci.), 2012, 17(1): 31-38 DOI: 10.1007/s12204-012-1226-8 Robust Adaptive Horizontal Vibration Isolation of Towed Seismic Streamers LIU Tao ( ), ZHANG Wei-jing∗ (), MA Jie ( ) (State Key Laboratory of Ocean Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200240, China) © Shanghai Jiaotong University and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012 Abstract: The horizontal vibration of towed seismic streamers is a main reason for efficiency reduction of the seismic survey and tail tangling. A vibration suppression scheme of towed seismic streamers is investigated in this paper. The towed seismic streamer is divided into two spans, a controlled span, i.e., the low tension span, and an uncontrolled span, i.e., the high tension span, by a bird. The system model includes a hyperbolic partial differential equation with variable coefficient describing the towed seismic streamers, and an ordinary differential equation describing the dynamic of bird. Robust based-model knowledge and adaptive controllers, based on the Lyapunov method, are designed to isolate the vibration of towed seismic streamers caused by the course deviations of towing vessel, the variations of towing vessel velocity and the variations of towed seismic streamer density. The robust based-model knowledge and adaptive controllers exponentially and asymptotically drive the span-towed seismic streamer displacement to zero, respectively. A finite difference scheme is used to validate the efficiency of the control law. The proposed controller can isolate effectively the disturbance originated from the towed vessel, and can provide the improved damping but not sacr