A new BGF publication is featured in Applied Ocean Research, Volume 161 (2025), Article 104701 (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0141118725002871).
This article marks an exciting milestone in the BGF project’s ongoing journey of impact and innovation, continuing strong even after the project’s official completion on 31 March 2022.
In the context of the design of an innovative floating Multi-purpose Offshore Installations (integrating renewable energy sources with aquaculture systems) developed within BGF project, the challenge to study and implement a model to predict the floating platform movement and deformation under in- service loading has emerged to be key to define an efficient automation and control system for the installation. This paper describes the engineering process adopted to achieve this objective, considering the novelty of the platform concept and the lack of similar industrial MOI automation and control experience. The proposed methodology focuses on the use of machine learning (ML) techniques and its validation process by exploiting data acquired during an experimental campaign at sea developed on a scaled version (prototype) of the proposed infrastructure. Tests carried out aimed at capturing the complex structure dynamics through data recorded in a wide experimental campaign between May and September 2021 at the Natural Ocean Engineering Laboratory (NOEL) of Reggio Calabria (Italy), where a 1:15 scale BGF prototype - equipped with advanced sensors - was tested under real-world marine conditions. This publication brings to a close the exploitation phase of the experimental campaign carried out at the Natural Ocean Engineering Laboratory (NOEL) in Reggio Calabria.
Since its inception, the BGF project has made a meaningful mark through
- 15 peer-reviewed journal articles
- 12 conference papers
- 3 magazine features
demonstrating the strength of collaboration and research excellence behind it.
