A control system for a drilling apparatus

摘要

A control system for a drilling apparatus, the control system comprising: a control unit for controlling machine control level operations of the drilling apparatus; one or more machine control nodes connected to the control unit via a control bus, said machine control nodes providing at least one output from one or more sensors of the drilling apparatus; and an analysis functionality arranged to operate at said machine control level, said analysis functionality being arranged to obtain measurement data of said one or more sensors from said one or more machine control nodes via the control bus and to carry out an analysis of a drilling process.