Analysis of power extraction from irregular waves by all-electric power take off

2010 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2010 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2370-2377

  Tedeschi, Elisabetta ^a   Molinas, Marta ^a   Carraro, Matteo ^b   Mattavelli, Paolo ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL STRATEGIES; CONTROL TECHNIQUES; ELECTRIC POWER; HIGH AVERAGE POWER; INCIDENT WAVES; IRREGULAR WAVES; LINEAR TECHNIQUES; OPTIMUM CONTROL; POINT ABSORBER; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; POWER EXTRACTION; POWER SATURATION TECHNIQUES; RATIONAL DESIGN; WAVE CONDITIONS; WAVE ENERGY CONVERTERS;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ENERGY CONVERSION; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; POWER ELECTRONICS; WAVE POWER;

WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

EID: 78650080836     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECCE.2010.5617893     Document Type: Conference Paper

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