Advancing Active Control of Wave Energy Converters

目前，在如何实现国家波浪能机会的描述中，几乎没有提供精确的描述，波浪能的承诺目前在加拿大社区，电力项目开发商和公用事业中都是空洞的。在加拿大，关于波浪能转换器（WEC）技术的长期潜力的辩论必须与当地相关的愿景相辅相成，该愿景将短期和长期联系起来，并建立在以下基础上：以具有战略重要性的地区为代表的原始波浪能资源的精确定义，部署在该战略地区的波浪能转换器的性能，以及详细说明如何利用间歇性波浪能的详细整合战略。由于目前的技术、社会和经济环境阻碍了加拿大对原型WEC示范的投资，因此必须通过低成本、环保和精确的计算机模拟来实现这一愿景。在过去的五年中，申请人创建了一个全国独特的现场测量和计算机建模工具组合，可用于完成基于温哥华岛西海岸WEC模拟的研究。这个集体研究机构被称为西海岸波浪倡议。然而，为了准确定义WEC技术对加拿大的未来价值，在WCWI的WEC技术模拟中，必须考虑目前处于商业开发阶段的先进WEC控制策略。在提出的发现基金研究计划中，申请人寻求为一类特殊的WEC -无反应二体点吸收剂创建先进的时域控制策略。控制开发将通过数学建模、计算机仿真和物理比例模型测试相结合来实现。通过将先进控制的性能优势纳入有前途的WEC技术的评估中，提出的探索基金研究计划将确保WCWI确定当前WEC投资的谨慎水平，并激励必要的行动，以催化形成一个富有成效的加拿大WEC产业。

Little to no precision is currently provided in the description of how the national wave energy opportunity can be realized, and the promise of wave energy currently rings hollow with Canadian communities, power project developers, and utilities. In Canada, debate on the long term potential of wave energy converter (WEC) technology has to be complemented with a locally relevant vision that bridges the short and long term and is built on: a precise definition of the raw wave energy resource as represented by a region of strategic importance, the performance of WECs deployed in that strategic region, and detailed integration strategies that detail how intermittent wave power can be exploited. Since present day technical, social and economic circumstances dissuade Canadian investment in prototype WEC demonstrations, this vision must be generated through low cost, environmentally benign and precise computer simulations.Over the past five years, the applicant has created a nationally unique portfolio of field measurement and computer modelling tools that can be used to complete such simulation based WEC research for the West Coast of Vancouver Island. The collective body of research is referred to as the West Coast Wave Initiative. However, towards an accurate definition of the future value of WEC technology to Canada, advanced WEC control strategies, currently on the horizon of commercial development, have to be considered in the WCWI's WEC technology simulations. In the proposed Discovery Grant research program, the applicant seeks to create advanced time domain control strategies for a particular class of WEC - reactionless two-body point absorbers. The control development will be achieved through a combination of mathematical modelling, computer simulation and physical scale model testing. By including the performance benefits of advanced control in the evaluation of a promising class of WEC technology, the proposed Discovery Grant research program will ensure that the WCWI identifies a prudent level of present day WEC investment and motivates the actions necessary to catalyze the formation of a productive Canadian WEC industry.