Hall, Carrie and Wu, Yueqi and Sheng, Wanan and Aggidis, George (2023) The Impact of Control Structure and Constraints on the Performance of a Wave Energy Converter with a Hydraulic PTO System. In: ISOPE-2023 :. ISOPE, pp. 628-635. ISBN 9781880653807
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Optimal control techniques can oversee the power take off (PTO) operation of wave energy conversion systems to ensure that the overall power output is maximized, but optimization in real-time poses difficulties given the wave variability and the underlying constraints of the system. This study examines several different model predictive control (MPC) approaches that utilize a model of the hydrodynamics of the wave energy converter as well as the dynamics of a hydraulic PTO system. The impact of accounting for various dynamics in the optimization and the role of constraints on the wave energy converter performance is explored for irregular wave conditions.