With an increasing focus on climate action and energy security, an appropriate mix of
renewable energy technologies is imperative. Despite having considerable global potential …

Although wave energy prototypes have been proposed for more than 100 years, they have
still not reached full commercialisation. The reasons for this are varied, but include the …

Abstract Model predictive control (MPC) has achieved considerable success in the process
industries, with its ability to deal with linear and nonlinear models, while observing system …

It has been well accepted that wave energy may have the potential to significantly contribute
to the future renewable energy mix but so far it remains as the largest untapped renewable …

With the recent sharp increases in the price of oil, issues of security of supply, and pressure
to honor greenhouse gas emission limits (eg, the Kyoto protocol), much attention has turned …

With many countries planning to significantly increase grid renewable energy penetration
levels, we consider the role of wave energy in supply–demand matching. We investigate …

Control of wave energy converters (WECs) has been very often limited to hydrodynamic
control to absorb the maximum energy possible from ocean waves. This generally ignores or …

Wave-energy converters of the point-absorbing type (ie, having small extension compared
with the wavelength) are promising for achieving cost reductions and design improvements …

Wave energy's path towards commercialization requires maximizing reliability, survivability,
an improvement in energy harvested from the wave and efficiency of the wave to wire …

This paper investigates model predictive control (MPC) of a single sea wave energy
converter (WEC). By using control schemes which constrain certain quantities, such as the …