Title :
Directional Drilling System Response and Stability
Author_Institution :
Schlumberger Technol. Centre, Stonehouse
Abstract :
A directionally steered drilling system has a borehole-propagation transfer function composed of spatial delay exponentials corresponding to the system´s touch points with the borehole. This insight enables frequency-domain methods to be applied to the problems of steering performance.
Keywords :
drilling; mechanical stability; borehole-propagation transfer function; directional steered drilling system; frequency-domain method; spatial delay exponential; Actuators; Assembly; Control systems; Delay; Drilling; Stability; Steady-state; Steering systems; Transfer functions; Vibrations; Directional drilling; quasi-polynomial; stability;
Conference_Titel :
Control Applications, 2007. CCA 2007. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Singapore
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0442-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0443-8
DOI :
10.1109/CCA.2007.4389456
