TY - GEN
T1 - A holistic approach to designing damping control strategies for heaving wave energy converters
AU - Jama, Mohammed
AU - Wahyudie, Addy
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE
PY - 2018/12/4
Y1 - 2018/12/4
N2 - Compared to reactive control strategies, damping strategies generally have lower energy throughput, but it can prove to be effective for small WEC systems. To the best of our knowledge, damping strategies have been generally discussed either in the mechanical or the electrical contexts. Therefore, this work is an attempt to link between the two directly coupled sides of the problem. In this work, the effect of the wave environment characteristics and the operating conditions of the PTO system on the WEC power capturing performance is examined. A criterion to adequately select the required damping taking into account not only the hydrodynamic forces but also the design limitations present in the PTO system is derived. Both simulation and experimental results of the investigated system are presented and discussed.
AB - Compared to reactive control strategies, damping strategies generally have lower energy throughput, but it can prove to be effective for small WEC systems. To the best of our knowledge, damping strategies have been generally discussed either in the mechanical or the electrical contexts. Therefore, this work is an attempt to link between the two directly coupled sides of the problem. In this work, the effect of the wave environment characteristics and the operating conditions of the PTO system on the WEC power capturing performance is examined. A criterion to adequately select the required damping taking into account not only the hydrodynamic forces but also the design limitations present in the PTO system is derived. Both simulation and experimental results of the investigated system are presented and discussed.
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U2 - 10.1109/OCEANSKOBE.2018.8558889
DO - 10.1109/OCEANSKOBE.2018.8558889
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85060282452
T3 - 2018 OCEANS - MTS/IEEE Kobe Techno-Oceans, OCEANS - Kobe 2018
BT - 2018 OCEANS - MTS/IEEE Kobe Techno-Oceans, OCEANS - Kobe 2018
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2018 OCEANS - MTS/IEEE Kobe Techno-Oceans, OCEANS - Kobe 2018
Y2 - 28 May 2018 through 31 May 2018
ER -