A downward signal processing method for rotary steerable drilling system based on signal similarity

Abstract To identify downhole command signals accurately and efficiently with negative fluid pulse intervals in the rotary steerable drilling engineering and solve the complex operation and high error rate problems in the command identification and explanation process of downhole receivers, this paper presents a signal process method based on signal similarity principle. In this method, command instructions expressed by drilling fluid pulse width signal are obtained by comparing the self-correlation degree of sampling signal amplitudes at each interval, and the downhole sampling signals are compared interval by interval according to a fixed rule, and command identification is achieved by three steps, i.e. judgment for the start of signal, calculation for digital bits of the command, and assembling of command word. The recursive practical algorithms suitable for downhole processing are proposed. The results show that the method can simplify operation program and improve the reliability and ability of interference killing for the signal identification, and is especially good for overcoming the effects of peak and periodic interference on time counting and the effects of inertia of transmitting channel and low frequency noise on signal jump edge judging.