Teillant, B. and Gilloteaux, J.C. and Ringwood, John (2010) Optimal Damping Profile for a Heaving Buoy Wave Energy Converter. In: IFAC Conference on Control Applications in Marine Systems (CAMS), September 2010, Rostock.

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Abstract

This paper discusses optimal damping profiles for a heaving buoy Wave Energy Converter (WEC) with a single degree of freedom. The goal is to examine how the device can be controlled to harvest maximum energy from incident waves. Both latching and declutching strategies are allowed via a general parametrization of the damping force. Ultimately, the research attempts to determine the best control strategy to apply considering the relative resonant frequency of the device and the monochromatic wave frequency set.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Keywords:	Wave energy; Heaving buoy; Latching; Declutching; Optimization;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > Electronic Engineering Faculty of Science and Engineering > Research Institutes > Centre for Ocean Energy Research
Item ID:	3612
Depositing User:	Professor John Ringwood
Date Deposited:	01 May 2012 09:20
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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