Identification of scaled-model risers kinematics through the analysis of correspondent video image pairs

• Grant number: 14/08192-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: July 01, 2014
• End date: December 31, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Naval and Oceanic Engineering - Marine and Ocean Structures
• Principal Investigator: Flavius Portella Ribas Martins
• Grantee: Gustavo Tayou Lee
• Host Institution: Escola Politécnica (EP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

In this project, the kinematics of a scaled-model riser undergoing forced oscilatory motion on a tower tank test, will be identified through the application of a computer vision algorithm to correspondent pairs of time video image frames.