Top Tension Control of a Flexible Marine Riser by Using Integral-Barrier Lyapunov Function

Abstract

This paper presents a boundary controller for a flexible marine riser to suppress the riser's vibration with a top tension constraint. The flexible marine riser is described by a distributed parameter system with a partial differential equation and four ordinary differential equations. The boundary controller is designed at the top boundary of the riser based on an integral-barrier Lyapunov function to suppress the riser's tension at top. Adaptive control is designed when the system parametric uncertainty exists. With the proposed robust adaptive boundary control, uniformed boundedness under the ocean disturbance can be achieved. Stability analysis of the closed-loop system is given using the Lyapunov stability theory. Simulation results illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed boundary controller with top tension constraint.