TY - GEN
T1 - Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation for the Proposed Slider-Crank Wave Energy Conversion Device
AU - Hollis, Tanner
AU - Karayaka, H. Bora
AU - Yu, Yi Hsiang
AU - Yan, Yanjun
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2019/1/7
Y1 - 2019/1/7
N2 - In this work, a novel model of a wave energy converter that utilizes a slider crank power take-off system (PTOS) is simulated in a hardware-in-the-loop framework. The simulated parts in this framework include a buoy, slider crank linkage, and a gearbox. The slider crank linkage acting as the linear to rotary converter is represented by a DC motor coupled with a physical generator. With a regular sinusoidal wave excitation force in simulation, the hydrodynamic forces are converted into a torque, emulated by a physical motor that is directly coupled with another identical physical DC machine as the generator. By utilizing the dSPACE Control Desk software and the associated dSPACE hardware, the control algorithm in the device uses a power electronics board to drive the machines. The results show that the control system applied to the hardware-in-the-loop framework can successfully extract energy for a scaled down version of the proposed WEC device.
AB - In this work, a novel model of a wave energy converter that utilizes a slider crank power take-off system (PTOS) is simulated in a hardware-in-the-loop framework. The simulated parts in this framework include a buoy, slider crank linkage, and a gearbox. The slider crank linkage acting as the linear to rotary converter is represented by a DC motor coupled with a physical generator. With a regular sinusoidal wave excitation force in simulation, the hydrodynamic forces are converted into a torque, emulated by a physical motor that is directly coupled with another identical physical DC machine as the generator. By utilizing the dSPACE Control Desk software and the associated dSPACE hardware, the control algorithm in the device uses a power electronics board to drive the machines. The results show that the control system applied to the hardware-in-the-loop framework can successfully extract energy for a scaled down version of the proposed WEC device.
KW - Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL)
KW - Slider Crank
KW - Wave Energy Converter (WEC)
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85061787791&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/OCEANS.2018.8604770
DO - 10.1109/OCEANS.2018.8604770
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85061787791
T3 - OCEANS 2018 MTS/IEEE Charleston, OCEAN 2018
BT - OCEANS 2018 MTS/IEEE Charleston, OCEAN 2018
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - OCEANS 2018 MTS/IEEE Charleston, OCEANS 2018
Y2 - 22 October 2018 through 25 October 2018
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