Last year Dr Adam Stock moved across to Heriot-Watt University to take on a role as Assistant Professor. This has led to a new opportunity for a Post Doctoral Research Associate (PDRA) to join Adam as part of the HAPiWEC team at Heriot-Watt. The PDRA will help to develop and…
On the 27th of October, Adam Stock and Matthew Onslow went on a visit to Newcastle University to meet with Nick Baker and Farrel Asker to discuss the modelling of power take-offs (PTOs). Nick and Farrel’s work primarily consists of finite element analysis of electrical machines, however the discussion revolved…
The European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (EWTEC) is a major event in the calendar for most people involved in wave and tidal energy research. After the impact that COVID had on the 2021 event, there was a celebratory atmosphere as HAPiWECers Dr Ally Price, Dr Adam Stock, Dr Brian…
One of the aims of the HAPIWEC project is to provide the user with the ability to visually create a controller structure and have that structure coded into a digital controller in a remote location with the push of a button. Recent advances in cloud computing have made this possible…
Among the high-level programming languages are visual languages, which enable users to create computer programs by manipulating graphic elements. Many of these languages are based on the “box and arrows” approach, in which boxes, circles, etc., are treated as objects on the screen connected by arrows, lines, or arcs. Users…
PhD student Matthew Onslow attended Future Wind & Marine 2023 on the 17th of March in Glasgow. His PhD is aligned with the HAPiWEC project and is supervised by Adam Stock and David Forehand, Co-Investigators on HAPiWEC and leaders of work packages 2 and 4 respectively. He presented a poster…
Over the years there have been many different control approaches for Wave Energy Converters (WECs), from very simple controllers that provide a force proportional to the speed (linear damping) to more complex controllers that contain a detailed model of the WEC within the controller (Model Predictive Control or MPC). The…
Adam Stock and Ally Price attended the SuperGen ORE Hub Autumn Assembly in Oxford earlier this year, below are some of their take aways from the event. Deborah Greaves (Plymouth) – reported on the EPSRC project ‘Flexible responsive systems in wave energy’. They plan to invite collaborators to simulate their…
Two HAPiWECers, Adam Stock and Ally Price, attended the MORE / COER Wave energy control workshop in April this year. The conference is usually held in Ireland (COER) and this year was hosted in Turin, Italy by their close collaborators MORE. Being the first international conference for both of us…
Welcome to the web page for the EPSRC funded project “Holistic Advanced Prototyping and Interfacing for Wave Energy Coverters” or HAPiWEC. The project is a collaboration between the Universities of Strathclyde and Edinburgh. This website will be updated in due course!
