Towards an Implementation for Offshore Operation Simulations

The installation and maintenance of offshore wind energy farms is a dangerous field of work. To increase the safety of these operations, the ongoing research project Safe Offshore Operations (SOOP), was launched in 2011. One objective of the project is the development and preparation of specialised simulator training scenarios for offshore personnel. Because of their high degree of realism, commercial simulators are used. Although these simulations are capable of modelling a wide range of situations physically correctly, the special demands of offshore operations on the simulation environment might exceed the boundaries of the implemented mathematical models. To ascertain the validity of the training sessions, custom simulations specialised on the problems at hand are developed and used for comparison with the results of commercial simulators. The current state of development of the implementation and its placing within the project SOOP is presented.