Academic Collaboration

Control of WECs with machine learning

Industrial Doctoral Centre for Offshore Renewable Energy

This IDCORE project has investigated the application of reinforcement learning and neural networks to the control of a point absorber.

Design and Optimisation of a novel Multiple Wave Absorber Platform (PhD)

Summary of a PhD co-funded by WES that plans to undertake detailed analyses of a multi-(wave) absorber platform, which will determine the best approach for co-design and optimisation of such a system.

PhD on fatigue-resistant elastomers with integrated electrodes for modular self-sensing DEGs and DFGs

This PhD at Swansea University aims to investigate electro-mechanical fatigue for both DEGs and DFGs.

Radical innovation for the wave energy sector: An investigation of the potential of direct conversion as an enabling technology

The potential of novel energy conversion technologies for development of the wave energy sector