With an increasing focus on climate action and energy security, an appropriate mix of
renewable energy technologies is imperative. Despite having considerable global potential …

This paper reviews the state-of-the-art on Hardware-In-The-Loop simulation methodologies
and technologies applied in the research field of wave energy converters. It reveals …

Achieving large-scale commercial exploitation of ocean wave energy inherently
encompasses the design and deployment of arrays of wave energy converters (WECs), in …

Motivated by the lack of comprehensive experimental implementation and assessment of the
potential benefit that can be achieved with energy-maximising optimal control solutions for …

The control of wave energy converters (WECs) to maximize power capture is a challenging
problem. In particular, the nature of the wave excitation, which is in general panchromatic (or …

Motivated by the necessity of suitable state constraint mechanisms within linear time-
invariant (LTI) energy-maximising control of wave energy converters (WECs), we present, in …

Wave energy converters (WECs) inherently necessitate appropriate control technology to
operate at optimal efficiency. A particularly well-established family of WEC controllers is …

The wave energy control competition established a benchmark problem which was offered
as an open challenge to the wave energy system control community. The competition had …

One of the key steps towards economic feasibility of wave energy conversion technology
concerns scaling up to farms of multiple devices, in the attempt to reduce installation costs …

We implement a causal model predictive control (MPC) strategy to maximize power
generation from a wave energy converter (WEC) system, for which the power take-off (PTO) …