A simple and effective real-time controller for wave energy converters

IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 21-30

  Fusco, Francesco ^a   Ringwood, John V ^b  

^a Smarter Cities Technology Centre   (Ireland)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Optimal control; real time estimation; wave energy; wave forecasting

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINTS HANDLING; DEGREE OF FREEDOM; HARMONIC APPROXIMATION; IN-PHASE; NONSTATIONARY; NOVEL STRATEGIES; OPTIMAL CONTROLS; PHYSICAL MEANINGS; REACTIVE CONTROL; REAL-TIME CONTROLLERS; REAL-TIME ESTIMATION; SINGLE PARAMETER; WAVE CONDITIONS; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE ENERGY CONVERTERS; WAVE EXCITATION; WAVE FORECASTING;

MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; REAL TIME CONTROL; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 84871851205     PISSN: 19493029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSTE.2012.2196717     Document Type: Article

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