A study on the control and power absorption of the floating wave energy converter by the three dimensional motion simulation

Abstract

This study presented the 1st conversion power performance evaluation of the floating wave energy converter considering the two-body system and the three-dimensional analysis and the time-domain numerical simulation. The comparison of the 1st conversion power performance between the one-body system and the two-body system in the one-dimensional simulation was also presented. The reactive control strategy was employed and the performance of the two-body system indicated the interesting character. The optimal control parameters those were calculated in the one-dimensional simulation were applied to the three-dimensional simulation and the result of the three-dimensional simulation was presented by comparing with the one-dimensional simulation.