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

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 …

In recent years, the fundamental principle of impedance-matching (IM) has inspired a
number of sophisticated, yet simple, control solutions for wave energy converters (WEC) …

Wave energy has a significant part to play in providing a carbon-free solution to the world's
increasing appetite for energy. In many countries, there is sufficient wave energy to cater for …

Energy-maximising wave energy conversion control strategies are commonly based upon
direct optimal control theory, where the control problem is discretised and transcribed into a …

This paper explores optimal configuration of Wave Energy Converters (WECs) arrays
allowing both dimensions of individual WECs as well as the array layout to vary. Cylindrical …

A relatively simple, optimal, and robust nonlinear Sliding Mode Control (SMC) is developed
in this paper for a novel nonlinear Wave Energy Converter (WEC). Giving that deriving an …

Prediction of incident waves to Wave Energy Converters (WEC) is essential to maximize the
energy absorption by controlling the WEC. Nevertheless, little work has been done on the …

The design of controllers for wave energy devices has evolved from early monochromatic
impedance-matching methods to complex numerical algorithms that can handle …

This paper presents an optimization approach for the nonlinear control of wave energy
converters (WECs). The proposed optimization method also presents the option of …