Review on hardware-in-the-loop simulation of wave energy converters and power take-offs

Gaspar, José F.; Pinheiro, Rafael F.; Mendes, Mário J.G. C.; Kamarlouei, Mojtaba; Soares, C. Guedes

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Gaspar, José F.

Pinheiro, Rafael F.

Mendes, Mário J.G. C.

Kamarlouei, Mojtaba

Soares, C. Guedes

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This paper reviews the state-of-the-art on Hardware-In-The-Loop simulation methodologies and technologies applied in the research field of wave energy converters. It reveals important issues, such as an unclear taxonomy and representations of these methodologies, which are critical for the success of the approach, mostly during the design of experiments and presentation of results. Moreover, a classification approach to these methodologies is not found in the literature. Thus, a generic taxonomical and classification framework is developed to support the review process. This framework is built based on three taxonomic subsystems that the review shows to be effective in organizing the reviewed methodologies: simulated, real and interface subsystems. In particular, the definition of the interface subsystem is key to overcoming the limitations found in the methodological representations. Furthermore, this review borrows the term actionability to this approach to better describe the nuances and gaps between the reviewed case studies. It is found that the different technical implementations are easily organized with the proposed framework, and the results cover a wide range of wave energy converter development phases. Likewise, this review shows opportunities for improvements in the methodology and application to a wider number of new case studies.

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Acknowledgments This work was performed within the Strategic Research Plan of the Centre for Marine Technology and Ocean Engineering, which is financed by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia-FCT) under contract UIDB/UIDP/00134/2020, the project “Experimental simulation of oil-hydraulic Power TakeOff systems for Wave Energy Converters”, funded by Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) under contract PTDC/EMEREN/29044/2017 and project “Variable geometry Wave Energy Conversion system for floating platforms” funded by FCT under contract PTDC/EME-REN/0242/2020.