A review of wave-to-wire models for wave energy converters

M Penalba, JV Ringwood - Energies, 2016 - mdpi.com
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 …

Hydraulic power take-off concepts for wave energy conversion system: A review

MA Jusoh, MZ Ibrahim, MZ Daud, A Albani… - Energies, 2019 - mdpi.com
Ocean wave energy is one of the most abundant energy sources in the world. There is a
wide variety of wave energy conversion systems that have been designed and developed …

Energy-maximizing control of wave-energy converters: The development of control system technology to optimize their operation

JV Ringwood, G Bacelli, F Fusco - IEEE control systems …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

A simple and effective real-time controller for wave energy converters

F Fusco, JV Ringwood - IEEE Transactions on sustainable …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel strategy for the real-time control of oscillating wave energy converters (WECs) is
proposed. The controller tunes the oscillation of the system such that it is always in phase …

Nonlinear constrained optimal control of wave energy converters with adaptive dynamic programming

J Na, B Wang, G Li, S Zhan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we address the energy maximization problem of wave energy converters
(WEC) subject to nonlinearities and constraints, and present an efficient online control …

Review of innovative design and application of hydraulic compressed air energy storage technology

B Yang, D Li, Y Zhang, X Fu, H Wang, R Gong… - Journal of Energy …, 2024 - Elsevier
Owing to the rapid increase in the scale of grid connections of uncertain energy sources,
such as wind and solar, the regulation capacity of grids has been challenged, and the …

The wave energy converter design process: Methods applied in industry and shortcomings of current practices

A Trueworthy, B DuPont - Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2020 - mdpi.com
Wave energy is among the many renewable energy technologies being researched and
developed to address the increasing demand for low-emissions energy. The unique design …

Rotors for wave energy conversion—practice and possibilities

A Ermakov, JV Ringwood - IET Renewable Power Generation, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This review studies some of the existing ideas which create a fundamentally new direction
for wave energy converter (WEC) development, obtaining energy from the elliptical motion of …

Optimisation and control of a hydraulic power take-off unit for a wave energy converter in irregular waves

CJ Cargo, AJ Hillis… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
The optimisation of a wave energy converter hydraulic power take-off for sea states of
varying wave amplitude, direction and frequency is a significant problem. Sub-optimal …

[LIVRE][B] Optimal control of wave energy converters

G Bacelli - 2014 - search.proquest.com
Abstract Wave Energy Converters (WECs) are devices designed to absorb energy from
ocean waves. The particular type of Wave Energy Converter (WEC) considered in this thesis …