Offshore Oilfield Inspection Planning with Drone Routing Optimization

Offshore oilfield inspections play a crucial role in environmental conservation and resource management. However, these inspections traditionally depend on manual approaches, which are not only inefficient but also incur high costs. In response to this challenge, this study introduces an innovative...

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Published in:IEEE access 2024-01, Vol.12, p.1-1
Main Author: Zhang, Haoyan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
differential evolution
drone routing optimization
Drones
Energy conservation
Environmental management
Environmental monitoring
Evolutionary algorithms
Evolutionary computation
Flight
Inspection
Inspections
Mathematical models
Offshore
Offshore installations
Offshore oilfield inspection
Oil field equipment
Oil fields
Optimization
Optimization methods
Petroleum industry
Planning
Protected areas
Resource management
Routing
variable neighborhood search
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Summary:Offshore oilfield inspections play a crucial role in environmental conservation and resource management. However, these inspections traditionally depend on manual approaches, which are not only inefficient but also incur high costs. In response to this challenge, this study introduces an innovative drone-based approach to optimize offshore oilfield inspections, focusing specifically on minimizing the total flight duration through effective routing optimization. Based on this approach, we develop a novel and mathematical model that accounts for drone power limitations and inspection time windows. To solve this model efficiently, we propose a refined differential evolution algorithm. This algorithm incorporates both a roulette decoding method and a variable neighborhood search strategy, each contributing uniquely to enhance the solution quality. Experimental results demonstrate that our method markedly reduces the total flight duration of drones, substantially outperforming traditional approaches that do not incorporate routing optimization. This reduction in flight duration leads to more efficient and cost-effective drone operations for offshore oilfield inspections.
ISSN:2169-3536
2169-3536
DOI:10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3363229