Collaborative Research Centre 1463. Design and operate future offshore wind turbines using digital twins

1. Project details

2. Involved partners

3. Team

  • Prof. Dr. Eirini Ntoutsi (PI)
  • MSc. Emmanouil Panagiotou (Ph.D. student)

4. Project overview

The CRC conducts research on offshore megastructures, studying their design and operating conditions. We use a real-time capable simulation model of a digital twin and model all life phases of a structure, from the design and manufacturing to installation, operation and demolition.

5. Overview of our contributions

We are mainly involved in subproject B01: Integrated design process for offshore structures , with main objectives:

  • The investigation of an integrated design methodology, which allows an improvement of support structure designs by integrating all boundary conditions of the complete life process already in the very early design stage. Furthermore, novel structural concepts for future OWTs can be developed.
  • The development of a prediction model for predicting the design quality over the complete life cycle of offshore structures, combining the experience and intuition of the engineers and experts through appropriate ML methods.
  • The investigation of appropriate ML methods (e.g., decision tree, random forests, deep neural networks etc) for the prediction task, considering their predictive performance and interpretation/explanation of the decisions (XAI) to the domain experts.
  • Using XAI to understand decision making, corner cases and failures, but also to propose actionable recommendations (counterfactuals) to the end users.

6. Publications