Big things are happening in the world of remote wave energy control! The HAPiWEC project — our mission to make control design for wave energy converters faster, smarter, and more accessible — has reached some exciting new milestones. Whether you’ve followed us from the start or are just tuning in,…
Dr Adam Stock, Dr Peter McCallum and Dr Alexandra Price have received funding for a new project, “Accelerating Impact of Wave Energy Control” (AIM-WEC), which will use some of the software tools developed in HAPiWEC to inform new training and outreach materials for renewable energy professionals, MSc students and high…
Marking a major milestone for the project, the prototype system of the OSPREY-I (Open System-wide Prototyping for Renewable Energy Yield Improvement) was deployed in the FloWave basin. The dual motor power take off system, designed and constructed by the University of Edinburgh team was coupled to the power electronics from…
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…
