Download or read book Robust Control for Offshore Steel Jacket Platforms Under Wave-induced Forces written by Dongsheng Han and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This thesis is concerned with robust control of an offshore steel jacket platform subject to nonlinear wave-induced forces. Since time delay and uncertainty are inevitably encountered for an offshore structure and their existance may induce instability, oscillation and poor performance, it is very significant to study on how the delay and uncertainty affect the offshore structure. In this thesis, a memory robust control strategy is, for the first time, proposed to reduced the internal oscillations of the offshore structure under wave-induced forces so as to ensure the safety and comfort of the offshore structure." -- abstract.