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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Power Maximization"”.
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Real-time trajectory optimization for excavators by power maximization
… to those of the environment. By maximizing the power output of specific actuators the machine is able to strike a balance between disadvantageous operating conditions where it is either getting stuck in the soil or simply not utilizing its full potential to move soil towards task oriented goals. …
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Co-design Investigation and Optimization of an Oscillating-Surge Wave Energy Converter
… of subsystems such as the geometry, power take-off, and controls is necessary. A codesign optimization in this paper seeks to include effects of all subsystems within one optimization loop in order to reach a fully optimal design for an oscillating-surge wave energy converter. A width …
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Analysis of Model-Free Control of Wind Farms Using Large-Eddy Simulations
… on trailing turbines causing a decrease in power production. Wind farm control strategies aim at mitigating the effect of wake interactions. In this dissertation, model-free control strategies for wind farm power maximization have been evaluated using numerical simulations of the flow …
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Modelling Controlled Arrays of Wave Energy Converters
… WECs in various sea states and the resulting power output of the array is investigated. Results are presented which show the bene�t of using adaptive control for arrays of WECs over a simple �xed damping schemes. Additionally, the layout of a controlled array of multiple WECs is investigated …
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Numerical Analysis and Parameter Optimization of Portable Oscillating-Body Wave Energy Converters
… converter development has focused on large-scale power generation, there is also increasing interest in small-scale applications for powering the blue economy. In this thesis, the objective was to optimize the performance of small-sized, portable, oscillating-body wave energy converters (WECs). …
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Power Management and Power Conditioning Integrated Circuits for Near-Field Wireless Power Transfer
Near-field wireless power transfer (WPT) technology facilitates the energy autonomy of heterogeneous systems, significantly augmenting complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect-transistor (CMOS) technology. In low-power wearable devices, existing power conditioning integrated circuits do …
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Stochastic Optimization and Optimal Control for Complex Networked Infrastructures
Networked infrastructures (e.g., power grids and water networks) are becoming increasingly complicated systems due to accelerating integration of distributed devices, increasing scale of network systems, heterogeneous distributed control strategies, nonlinear nature of physical models and …
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Delay QoS Provisioning and Optimal Resource Allocation for Wireless Networks
… is considered and the optimal transmission/power-allocation strategies are characterized by identifying the optimal input covariance matrices.</p> <p>Next, mode selection and resource allocation for device-to-device (D2D) cellular networks are studied. As the starting point, ransmission mode …