Motion Compensated Gangways

Getting people from a ship to a wind turbine has been the main driver for the development of motion compensated gangways. These are access bridges that compensate for the motion of the vessel to keep the gangway in line with the wind turbine platform.

SMST - Motion compensated bridge

ADVANTAGES

Controllab has extensive expertise in the design, development and testing of motion control software for gangways.

  • Knowledge: We are experts in 3D dynamics and motion control.
  • Model-based design: We use 3D simulation models to develop our control software.
  • HIL testing: We use HIL simulation to test our control software.
All Electric Gangway

BENEFITS

Using our motion compensation software will give you:

  • Accuracy: We use error budgeting to maximize tip accuracy under all conditions.
  • Safety: Our software is extensively tested before and during use.
  • Experience: Over 10 years of experience working for Ampelmann, SMST, MacGregor, Eagle Access and others.

GET IN TOUCH

Get in touch with Jort Baarsma. He is responsible for commissioning our software on MacGregor’s all-electric gangways. He can tell you how we

  • tested the safety of our software before the gangway was built
  • used sensor fusion to increase the accuracy of luffing encoders
  • used a combination of MGC’s and DGPSs to measure the vessels position and orientation.