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DrGiordanoScarciotti

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Senior Lecturer
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 6268g.scarciotti Website

 
 
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1118Electrical EngineeringSouth Kensington Campus

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Publications

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@article{Faedo:2018:10.1016/j.conengprac.2018.08.010,
author = {Faedo, N and Scarciotti, G and Astolfi, A and Ringwood, JV},
doi = {10.1016/j.conengprac.2018.08.010},
journal = {Control Engineering Practice},
pages = {85--96},
title = {Energy-maximising control of wave energy converters using a moment-domain representation},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.conengprac.2018.08.010},
volume = {81},
year = {2018}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Wave Energy Converters (WECs) have to be controlled to ensure maximum energy extraction from waves while considering, at the same time, physical constraints on the motion of the real device and actuator characteristics. Since the control objective for WECs deviates significantly from the traditional reference “tracking” problem in classical control, the specification of an optimal control law, that optimises energy absorption under different sea-states, is non-trivial. Different approaches based on optimal control methodologies have been proposed for this energy-maximising objective, with considerable diversity on the optimisation formulation. Recently, a novel mathematical tool to compute the steady-state response of a system has been proposed: the moment-based phasor transform. This mathematical framework is inspired by the theory of model reduction by moment-matching and considers both continuous and discontinuous inputs, depicting an efficient and closed-form method to compute such a steady-state behaviour. This study approaches the design of an energy-maximising optimal controller for a single WEC device by employing the moment-based phasor transform, describing a pioneering application of this novel moment-matching mathematical scheme to an optimal control problem. Under this framework, the energy-maximising optimal control formulation is shown to be a strictly concave quadratic program, allowing the application of well-known efficient real-time algorithms.
AU  - Faedo,N
AU  - Scarciotti,G
AU  - Astolfi,A
AU  - Ringwood,JV
DO  - 10.1016/j.conengprac.2018.08.010
EP  - 96
PY  - 2018///
SN  - 0967-0661
SP  - 85
TI  - Energy-maximising control of wave energy converters using a moment-domain representation
T2  - Control Engineering Practice
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.conengprac.2018.08.010
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/63540
VL  - 81
ER  -
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