References

General resources

• Companion notebooks to published papers:

  • Control Co-Design of Power Take-off Systems for Wave Energy Converters using WecOptTool (Ströfer et al. [1]:)

  • Incorporating empirical nonlinear efficiency into control co-optimization of a real world heaving point absorber using WECOPTTOOL (Gaebele et al. [5]:)

  • Control co-design and uncertainty analysis of the LUPA’s PTO using WecOptTool (Ströfer et al. [6]:)

• Webinar recordings:

  • October, 2022

  • February, 2022

Bibliography

[1]

Carlos A. Michelén Ströfer, Daniel T. Gaebele, Ryan G. Coe, and Giorgio Bacelli. Control Co-Design of Power Take-off Systems for Wave Energy Converters using WecOptTool. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, 14(4):2157–2167, 2023. doi:10.1109/TSTE.2023.3272868.

[2]

Giorgio Bacelli. Optimal control of wave energy converters. PhD, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Maynooth, Ireland, 2014. URL: http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/6753/.

[3]

Giorgio Bacelli and John V Ringwood. Numerical optimal control of wave energy converters. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, 6(2):294–302, 2014. doi:10.1109/TSTE.2014.2371536.

[4]

G. Elnagar, M.A. Kazemi, and M. Razzaghi. The pseudospectral legendre method for discretizing optimal control problems. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 40(10):1793–1796, 1995. doi:10.1109/9.467672.

[5]

Daniel T. Gaebele, Carlos A Michelén Ströfer, Michael C. Devin, Jeff T. Grasberger, Ryan G. Coe, and Giorgio Bacelli. Incorporating empirical nonlinear efficiency into control co-optimization of a real world heaving point absorber using WECOPTTOOL. In Proceedings of the ASME 2023 42nd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE2023), International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. Melbourne, Australia, June 2023. doi:10.1115/OMAE2023-103899.

[6]

Carlos A Michelén Ströfer, Ryan G. Coe, and others. Control co-design and uncertainty analysis of the LUPA's PTO using WecOptTool. In Proceedings of the 15th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (EWTEC2023). Bilbao, Spain, September 2023. doi:10.36688/ewtec-2023-288.

[7]

Jeff T. Grasberger, Ryan G. Coe, Jonathan Bird, Giorgio Bacelli, Alex Hagmüller, and Carlos Michelén Ströfer. Maximizing wave energy converter power extraction by utilizing a variable negative stiffness magnetic spring. In Proceedings of the 15th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (EWTEC2023). Bilbao, Spain, September 2023. doi:10.36688/ewtec-2023-510.

[8]

Ryan G. Coe, Giorgio Bacelli, Sterling Olson, Vincent S. Neary, and Mathew B. R. Topper. Initial conceptual demonstration of control co-design for WEC optimization. Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine Energy, 6(4):441–449, 2020. doi:10.1007/s40722-020-00181-9.

[9]

Johannes Falnes. Ocean Waves and Oscillating Systems. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge; New York, 2002. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511754630.