Comparison of control strategies performance for a Wave Energy Converter

2008 Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation - Conference Proceedings, MED'08

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 773-778

  Valério, Duarte ^a   Beirão, Pedro ^b   Mendes, Mário J G C ^c   Sá Da Costa, José ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE ENGENHARIA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROPORTIONAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; WAVE POWER; WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

ARCHIMEDES WAVE SWING; CONTROL AND AUTOMATION; CONTROL STRATEGIES; ENERGY PRODUCTIONS; INTERNAL MODEL CONTROL; LATCHING CONTROL; NEURAL NETWORK MODELLING; P-I-D CONTROL; PHASE AND AMPLITUDE CONTROL; REACTIVE CONTROL; SEA WAVES; SIMULATION RESULTS; SWITCHING CONTROL; WAVE ENERGY CONVERTER;

WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

EID: 52949114579     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MED.2008.4602139     Document Type: Conference Paper

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