AUTOMATION OF DRILLING RIG ROTOR ELECTRIC DRIVE

Ergonomic Exposure Assessment on a Drilling Rig

Planetary Drilling Automation Blind Tests

Introduction: Commercial drilling, even deep-sea or remote, depends on human teleoperation. Lightspeed delays mean that coring and drilling beyond the Moon requires automation in order to not get stuck or risk mission failure. The Drilling Automation for Mars Exploration (DAME) is a NASA project for developing critical-path drilling software technologies. The DAME project’s purpose was to devel...

Automation of Drilling as Orthopaedic Manipulation

Drilling Automation for Subsurface Planetary Exploration

Future in-situ lunar/martian resource utilization and characterization, as well as the scientific search for life on Mars, will require access to the subsurface and hence drilling. Drilling on Earth is hard – an art form more than an engineering discipline. The limited mass, energy and manpower in planetary drilling situations makes application of terrestrial drilling techniques problematic. Th...

A Virtual Instrumentation of Electric Drive Systems for Automation and Testing

The virtual instrumentation (Vl) concept has been applied to ac and dc type electric drives. The Visual Designer is used for a dc motor and the LabView is used for a three-phase, delta connected induction motor. The essential parameters such as the line current, phase voltage, torque and speed are monitored continuously while the machines are operating on load. The data obtained from the drive ...