Holistic Advanced Prototyping and Interfacing for Wave Energy Control

波浪能有潜力为英国的可再生能源和经济增长做出重大贡献，并帮助实现政府的清洁增长战略。作为国家可再生能源组合的一部分，波浪能与风能发电的非相位关系带来了宝贵的电网平衡能源效益。这是少数几个国内主导的低碳技术行业之一，可以推动英国经济的发展，并显示出巨大的出口前景。然而，波浪能正处于发展的关键时刻，风能和太阳能等竞争技术近年来成本迅速下降。降低波浪能转换器（WECs）成本的一个解决方案是通过开发和植入改进的设备控制，这可以显着提高能量捕获并延长设备使用寿命，而无需对硬件进行重大重新设计。已经提出并将提出许多WEC控制方法，每种方法在部署到WEC之前都必须在物理波浪箱环境中进行演示和验证。波浪槽测试允许在低风险环境中对受控的WECs进行测试和安全降低风险，设计人员和开发人员可以开发控制器的知识（降低操作风险并减少不确定性），并激发实施所需方法的概念。HAPiWEC（波浪能控制的整体先进原型和接口）将开发和演示开放硬件和开放软件工具，以及在最先进的波浪罐设施中快速，经济高效和远程（通过互联网）部署新型WEC控制器的方法。这样，它将扩大WEC控制器开发的参与范围，使海洋可再生能源社区以外的人也能参与其中，并消除在波浪箱环境中测试控制算法的障碍。项目提出了3个核心概念：(1)远程进行的波能装置控制器的快速先进原型设计(2)具有新型分布式传感的开源，可访问，特征良好的通用比例模型(3)先进的阻抗匹配控制策略（最优速度跟踪）作为案例研究控制器；在水箱中与国际竞赛的获胜者进行基准测试控制器硬件和软件的快速原型设计的“开放”学习将被概念WECs的开发人员以及更成熟的设备开发人员访问。该项目旨在通过impact +开源工具箱、开放硬件OSPREY I WEC测试平台以及广泛的开放获取数据集和出版物，在该行业留下持久的影响。HAPiWEC活动与Supergen ORE Hub确定的关键发展领域和所需支持机制保持一致，并将为ecr和CDT活动创造新的工具。该项目得到了各种各样的项目工业合作伙伴的大力支持，他们将在各自的专业领域提供关键的见解。其中包括西大西洋海洋能源社区（WEAMEC），南特中央学院（ECN），苏格兰波浪能源（WES），国家可再生能源实验室（NREL）和可再生动力公司，他们都是波浪能和控制方面的专家，并且处于与研究和工业界接触的最前沿。他们的专门知识在指导项目和确保产出在社区中广泛传播方面将是非常宝贵的。

Wave energy has the potential to provide significant contributions of renewable energy and economic growth for the UK and help deliver the Government's Clean Growth Strategy . As part of a national renewable energy portfolio, wave energy brings valuable grid-balancing energy benefits with its out-of-phase relationship with wind energy generation. It is one of the few domestically led low carbon technology sectors that could advance the economy with significant UK content and shows great promise for exports. However, wave energy is at a critical juncture in its development with competing technologies such as wind and solar having seen rapid cost reductions in recent years. One solution to find this cost reduction for Wave Energy Converters (WECs) is through the development and implantation of improved device control which could dramatical improve energy capture and extend device lifetime without the need for significant hardware redesign. Numerous approaches to WEC control have been and will be proposed, each of which will have to be demonstrated and proven in a physical wave tank environment before being deployed on WECs. Wave tank tests allow controlled WECs to be tested and de-risked safely in a low risk environment, designers and developers to develop knowledge of their controllers (de-risking their operation and reducing uncertainty) and stimulate concepts for approaches required for their implementation.HAPiWEC (Holistic Advanced Prototyping and Interfacing for Wave Energy Control) will develop and demonstrate open-hardware and open-software tools, and methodologies for the rapid, cost-effective and remote (over the internet) deployment of novel WEC controllers in state-of-the-art wave tank facilities. In doing so, it will widen the participation of WEC controller development to those outside of the marine renewable energy community and remove barriers to the testing of control algorithms in wave tank environments. The project proposes 3 core concepts: (1) Rapid advanced prototyping of controllers for wave energy devices, conducted remotely(2) An open source, accessible, well-characterised generic scale model with novel distributed sensing(3) An advanced impedance matching control strategy (Optimal Velocity Tracking) as a case study controller, benchmarked in the tank against the winners of an international competitionThe "open" learnings on rapid prototyping of controller hardware and software will be accessible by both developers of conceptual WECs as well as more established device developers. The project aims to leave a lasting impact on the sector through the legacy of the IMPACT+ open source toolbox, open-hardware OSPREY I WEC test rig and extensive open-access datasets and publications. HAPiWEC activities align with key areas of development and the required support mechanisms identified by Supergen ORE Hub and will create new tools for ECRs and CDT activities. The project is strongly supported by a diverse set of project industrial partners who will provide critical insight in their areas of expertise. These include the West Atlantic Marine Energy Community (WEAMEC), Ecole Centrale Nantes (ECN), Wave Energy Scotland (WES), the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Renewable Dynamics all of whom are experts in wave energy and control and are at the forefront of engagement with the research and industrial communities. Their expertise will be invaluable in directing the project and ensuring the outputs are disseminated widely amongst the community.