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Federal
Advanced Control Systems for Wave Energy Converters
Department of Energy —
This submission contains several papers, a final report, descriptions of a theoretical framework for two types of control systems, and descriptions of eight real-time... -
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Wave Carpet Controls Design Optimization
Department of Energy —
To assess CalWave's submerged Wave Carpet Technology for system performance advancement, CalWave seeks to test advanced controls methodologies on a simplified wave... -
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Spooling control design for flight optimization of tethered tidal kites
Department of Energy —
This submission includes three peer-reviewed (under review) papers from the researchers at North Carolina State University presenting different control-based... -
Federal
Optimal kite control in spatiotemporally varying flow fields - ACC 2021
Department of Energy —
Two papers submitted (and accepted) to the 2021 American Control Conference (ACC), both focused on different attributes of kite control in variable flow environments.... -
Federal
MASK3 for Advanced WEC Dynamics and Controls
Department of Energy —
This report outlines the "MASK3" wave tank test within the Advanced WEC Dynamics and Controls (AWDC) project. This test represents the final test in the AWDC project.... -
Federal
MASK2B - Initial Results from Wave Tank Test of Closed-Loop WEC Control
Department of Energy —
This dataset covers the MASK2B wave tank experiment focused on a more complete study of one degree of freedom (1DOF) control of the WEC was considered, including... -
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Wave Tank Testing of 1-DoF Heaving Buoy for Controls Validation Purposes
Department of Energy —
This submission includes the wave tank testing data used to validate the controls optimization efforts of a heaving 1-DoF buoy. -
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FOSWEC v2: System identification and control testing at Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory
Department of Energy —
This report summarizes the design and execution of a wave tank test of the floating oscillating surge wave energy converter (FOSWEC) in the O.H. Hinsdale Wave... -
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Control of an AUV with deployable energy-harvesting kite
Department of Energy —
This paper examines the control of an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) with a deployable energy-harvesting kite for oceanographic observation and surveillance. The... -
Federal
Advanced WEC Dynamics and Controls, Test 1
Department of Energy —
Numerous studies have shown that advanced control of a wave energy converter's (WEC's) power take off (PTO) can provide significant increases (on the order of... -
Federal
Control-based optimization for tethered tidal kite
Department of Energy —
This submission includes three peer-reviewed (under review) papers from the researchers at North Carolina State University presenting control-based techniques to... -
Federal
WEC Controls Optimization Final Report
Department of Energy —
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... -
Federal
Model and experimental validation of ocean kite dynamics and controls
Department of Energy —
This submission includes two peer-reviewed papers from researchers at North Carolina State University presenting the modeling and lab-scale experimentation of the... -
Federal
Geometric, structural, and control co-design for undersea kites
Department of Energy —
Focusing on a marine hydrokinetic energy application, this paper presents a combined geometric, structural, and control co-design framework for optimizing the... -
Federal
Wave Tank Testing Report for Controls Validation of a Heaving Point Absorber
Department of Energy —
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...