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Zhenquan Zhang, Jian Qin, Dengshuai Wang, Shuting Huang, Yanjun Liu and Gang Xue
In this paper, a variable damper is proposed to regulate the efficiency of a two-body wave energy converter (WEC) with mechanically driven power take-off (PTO). The variable damper introduces logic constraints into the WEC system, which can be translated...
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Ali S. Haider, Kush Bubbar and Alan McCall
Achieving energy maximizing control of a Wave Energy Converter (WEC) not only needs a comprehensive dynamic model of the system?including nonlinear hydrodynamic effects and nonlinear characteristics of Power Take-Off (PTO)?but to treat the entire system ...
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Spencer Funk, Ali Shahbaz Haider, Kush Bubbar and Brad Buckham
Mooring systems are a critical component of all floating wave energy converter (WEC) systems, yet the impact of amooring system on the WEC dynamics is often neglected during the initial assessment of candidate designs. The purpose of this study was to in...
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Matias Carandell, Daniel Mihai Toma, Andrew S. Holmes, Joaquín del Río and Manel Gasulla
Wave Energy Converters (WECs) are an ideal solution for expanding the autonomy of surface sensor platforms such as oceanic drifters. To extract the maximum amount of energy from these fast-varying sources, a fast maximum power point tracking (MPPT) techn...
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Bo Zhang, Haixu Zhang, Sheng Yang, Shiyu Chen, Xiaoshan Bai and Awais Khan
This paper proposes a model predictive control (MPC) method based on an interconnected model to maximize the ocean wave energy extracted by a wave-energy converter (WEC) array. In the proposed method, a formally uniform interconnected model is applied to...
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Timothy Vervaet, Vasiliki Stratigaki, Brecht De Backer, Kurt Stockman, Marc Vantorre and Peter Troch
Commercial wave energy exploitation will be realised by placing multiple wave energy converters (WECs) in an array configuration. A point-absorber WEC consists of a floating or submerged body to capture wave energy from different wave directions. This po...
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Timothy Vervaet, Vasiliki Stratigaki, Francesco Ferri, Louis De Beule, Hendrik Claerbout, Bono De Witte, Marc Vantorre and Peter Troch
To offer point absorber wave energy converters (WECs) as a bankable product on the marine renewable energy market, multiple WECs will be installed together in an array configuration. The wave energy community (research and industrial) has identified the ...
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Guglielmo Papini, Francisco Javier Dores Piuma, Nicolás Faedo, John V. Ringwood and Giuliana Mattiazzo
This paper presents a data-driven model reduction by moment-matching approach to construct control-oriented models for a point absorber device. The methodology chosen and developed generates models which are input-to-state linear, with any nonlinear beha...
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Bingyong Guo, Tianyao Wang, Siya Jin, Shunli Duan, Kunde Yang and Yaming Zhao
There are more than thousands of concepts for harvesting wave energy, and wave energy converters (WECs) are diverse in operating principles, design geometries and deployment manners, leading to misconvergence in WEC technologies. Among numerous WEC devic...
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Salman Husain, Gordon G. Parker and Wayne W. Weaver
Multiple wave energy converter (WEC) buoys can be used to establish a WEC array-powered microgrid collectively forming a Marine Energy Grid (MEG). An oceanic domain with gravity waves will have significant spatial variability in phase, causing the power ...
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