Experimental evaluation and predictive control of an air-cored linear generator for direct-drive wave energy converters

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1817-1826

  Vermaak, Rieghard ^a   Kamper, Maarten J ^b  

^a ESKOM   (South Africa)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Air cored; direct drive (DD); linear generator (LG); predictive control; sensorless control; wave energy

Indexed keywords

AIR-CORED; DIRECT DRIVE; LINEAR GENERATORS; PREDICTIVE CONTROL; SENSOR LESS CONTROL; WAVE ENERGY;

ELECTROMOTIVE FORCE; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

STATORS;

EID: 84872120234     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2012.2221671     Document Type: Article

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