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Wave Tank Testing of 1-DoF Heaving Buoy for Controls Validation Purposes
This submission includes the wave tank testing data used to validate the controls optimization efforts of a heaving 1-DoF buoy. -
LCOE Content Model for the Heaving Point Absorber Buoy
This is the LCOE analysis spreadsheet and content model for the heaving point absorber buoy developed for controls purposes. The cost assessment was done on a wave-farm of... -
Modeling and Performance Data for Heaving Buoy Wave Energy Converter with a...
Modeling and performance data in Matlab data file (.mat) containing 3 structures (WEC model, simRes_sr and simRes_fix), and a pdf document describing the model, the simulations,... -
WEC Controls Optimization Final Report
The over-arching project objective is to fully develop and validate optimal controls frameworks that can subsequently be applied widely to different WEC devices and concepts.... -
Wave Tank Testing Report for Controls Validation of a Heaving Point Absorber
The core objectives of this project is to improve the power capture of three different wave energy conversion (WEC) devices by more than 50% using an advanced control system and...