Optimized Latching Control of Floating Point Absorber Wave Energy Converter

3rd International Conference on Communication Systems

无线电电子学

Gadodia, Chaitanya^1 ; Shandilya, Shubham^1 ; Bansal, Hari Om^1

Department of Electrical and Electronics, BITS Pilani, Pilani

333031, India^1

关键词: Control schemes;    Cost requirements;    Energy output;    Floating points;    Green energy sources;    Latching control;    Modelling and simulations;    Wave energy converters;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/331/1/012024/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/331/1/012024

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

There is an increasing demand for energy in today's world. Currently main energy resources are fossil fuels, which will eventually drain out, also the emissions produced from them contribute to global warming. For a sustainable future, these fossil fuels should be replaced with renewable and green energy sources. Sea waves are a gigantic and undiscovered vitality asset. The potential for extricating energy from waves is extensive. To trap this energy, wave energy converters (WEC) are needed. There is a need for increasing the energy output and decreasing the cost requirement of these existing WECs. This paper presents a method which uses prediction as a part of the control scheme to increase the energy efficiency of the floating-point absorber WECs. Kalman Filter is used for estimation, coupled with latching control in regular as well as irregular sea waves. Modelling and Simulation results for the same are also included.