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Review

Control Strategies Applied to Wave Energy Converters: State of the Art

by
Aleix Maria-Arenas
1,*,
Aitor J. Garrido
2,
Eugen Rusu
3 and
Izaskun Garrido
2
1
Department of Engineering, Wedge Global S.L., 35017 Las palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
2
Automatic Control Group—ACG, Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, Engineering School of Bilbao, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), 48012 Bilbao, Spain
3
Department of Applied Mechanics, University Dunarea de Jos of Galati, Galati 800008, Romania
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Energies 2019, 12(16), 3115; https://doi.org/10.3390/en12163115
Submission received: 29 June 2019 / Revised: 30 July 2019 / Accepted: 6 August 2019 / Published: 14 August 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Renewable Energy in Marine Environment)
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Abstract

Wave energy’s path towards commercialization requires maximizing reliability, survivability, an improvement in energy harvested from the wave and efficiency of the wave to wire conversion. In this sense, control strategies directly impact the survivability and safe operation of the device, as well as the ability to harness the energy from the wave. For example, tuning the device’s natural frequency to the incoming wave allows resonance mode operation and amplifies the velocity, which has a quadratic proportionality to the extracted energy. In this article, a review of the main control strategies applied in wave energy conversion is presented along their corresponding power take-off (PTO) systems.
Keywords: ocean energy; marine energy; wave energy; renewable energy; wave energy converter; control system ocean energy; marine energy; wave energy; renewable energy; wave energy converter; control system

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Maria-Arenas, A.; Garrido, A.J.; Rusu, E.; Garrido, I. Control Strategies Applied to Wave Energy Converters: State of the Art. Energies 2019, 12, 3115. https://doi.org/10.3390/en12163115

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Maria-Arenas A, Garrido AJ, Rusu E, Garrido I. Control Strategies Applied to Wave Energy Converters: State of the Art. Energies. 2019; 12(16):3115. https://doi.org/10.3390/en12163115

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Maria-Arenas, Aleix, Aitor J. Garrido, Eugen Rusu, and Izaskun Garrido. 2019. "Control Strategies Applied to Wave Energy Converters: State of the Art" Energies 12, no. 16: 3115. https://doi.org/10.3390/en12163115

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Maria-Arenas, A., Garrido, A. J., Rusu, E., & Garrido, I. (2019). Control Strategies Applied to Wave Energy Converters: State of the Art. Energies, 12(16), 3115. https://doi.org/10.3390/en12163115

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