Seafloor Drills – Systems, Components, Tools
Seafloor Drill-related projects have formed the bulk of Cellula’s activities since 2007. Projects include:
- Canyon Offshore – development of two seafloor geotechnical drilling systems
- British Geological Survey – tool-changing manipulator development
- (Undisclosed) – downhole geophysical tool development
- Seafloor Geoservices Inc. – development of a drill-mud delivery and mixing system for remotely operated subsea coring drill
- Geomarine – marinization & integration of remotely monitored CPT sensor
- Seafloor Geoservices – preliminary design of landing system to land seafloor drill in rugged terrain
- Perry Slingsby Systems Inc. – design and provision of robotic components for subsea coring drills (tool arms, footclamps, carousels, wireline winch, telescoping legs)
Geotechnical Systems
Cellula Robotics has been working on rock-cutting robots for the terrestrial mining sector and the subsea excavation and trenching sectors since 2001. Projects include:
- Fukada Salvage & Marine – subsea excavator deployment and operation
- Geomarine Ltd. – design of a subsea shallow-water cable Trencher
- Geomarine Ltd. – conceptual design of custom subsea installation equipment
- Perry Slingsby Systems Inc. – design and production analysis for rock-wheel integration to Canyon T750 Trencher
- Nautilus Minerals Inc. – analysis of subsea rock-cutting data for sizing of robotic excavation equipment
- Technip USA – conceptual design of subsea excavation equipment
- Coanda Research and Development Corporation – assisted in the development of a slurry wear loop facility
- Placer Dome Technical Services Ltd. – project management of a research and development project investigating the feasibility of subsea mining of seafloor massive sulphide (SMS) deposits
- Placer Dome Technical Services Ltd. – project management and development of an instrumented robotic subsea rock-cutting excavator for sizing of robotic excavation equipment
- Placer Dome Technical Services Ltd. – development of a robotic underground hard-rock mining machine
Control Systems
- Geomarine Ltd. – advanced data acquisition systems for remotely operated CPT
- Canyon Offshore Inc. – control system for subsea intervention systems
- Canyon Offshore Inc. – control system for remotely operated coring drill
- Schlumberger Oilfield (S) Pte Ltd – systems engineering for subsea well intervention control system
- Perry Slingsby Systems Inc. – control algorithms for Triton XLX station-keeping control functions
- Advanced Manipulator/Controls Testbeds delivered to the Canadian Space Agency:
Subsea Engineering
- Schlumberger Oilfield (S) Pte Ltd – subsea pumping systems design
- Pangeo Subsea Inc. – project management of an “Acoustic Corer” prototype
- Pangeo Subsea Inc. – design and provision of various subsea assemblies and mechanisms
- Pangeo Subsea Inc. – analysis and design of launch and recovery basket
- Perry Slingsby Systems Inc. – ROV-related design support services
- Ocean Floor Geophysics Inc. – project management of subsea electromagnetic conductivity sensor and design and provision of assemblies and mechanisms
Analyses, Dynamics, Estimators
- Ocean Floor Geophysics Inc. – optimized ROV position estimation algorithms for subsea multibeam survey
- Perry Slingsby Systems Inc. – slurry transport analysis for rock-wheel trenching
- Pangeo Subsea Inc. – launch and recovery wave force analyses
- Nautilus Minerals Inc. – modelling of towfish and catenary behavior
- Nautilus Minerals Inc. – post-processing of multibeam survey data to generate 20cm resolution bathymetric model
- Perry Slingsby Systems Inc. – development of complete 6D vehicle dynamics model for work-class ROVs
- Placer Dome Inc. – analysis and prototype design of air-lift pumping systems