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- Title
Numerical Simulations and Control of Offshore Energy Harvesting Using Piezoelectric Materials in a Portal Frame Structure.
- Authors
Lenz, Wagner B.; Ribeiro, Mauricio A.; Rocha, Rodrigo T.; Balthazar, Jose M.; Tusset, Angelo M.
- Abstract
Buoy systems are an alternative for micropowering small devices in remote locations. Portal frames are very useful to harvest the energy of the waves into usable energy. Thus, using the current models for a portal frame in the literature and the spectrum of available energy in sea waves, a nonlinear mathematical model accounting for the coupling of a nonlinear piezoelectric material is considered. The neighbour of selected variables is analyzed and then optimized by a process utilizing the particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm. Furthermore, an optimal control using the linear-quadratic regulator (LQR) controller is applied to control the load resistance of the piezoelectric circuit. The optimization process and the LQR show to be effective. The results show a general gain due to optimization and a relatively small gain using the controller.
- Subjects
ENERGY harvesting; PIEZOELECTRIC materials; STRUCTURAL frames; OCEAN waves; ENERGY consumption; PIEZOELECTRIC thin films
- Publication
Shock & Vibration, 2021, p1
- ISSN
1070-9622
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1155/2021/6651999