Virtual Driller’s Operating System for Deepwater Drilling Based on Virtual Reality

During domestic development of automated drilling equipment,if the control system software for each device shows error in the protection logic and trajectory solver,safety incident of device could be easily raised in joint debugging test.To address the issue,a virtual driller’s operating system for deepwater drilling rig has been developed.Adopting 3DVIA Virtools as the virtual reality technology development platform,combined with industrial automation,industrial networking communications and large-screen technology,the system could simulate the joint work flow of drilling equipment,thus optimize the rig overall configuration and layout.Before the joint test of newly developed electro-hydraulic device,assist test of control program of each device’s virtual prototype could be conducted to reduce the risk of electro-hydraulic joint test.The field application of the system has achieved good results with shortened test debug time and reduced product development costs.Finally,it is indicated that,the interaction-based virtual driller’s operating system for deepwater drilling is a novel driller training mode.