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A causal neural control strategy is described for a simple “heaving” wave energy converter. It is shown that effective control can be produced over a range of off-resonant frequencies. A latching strategy is investigated, utilising a biologically inspired neural oscillator as the basis for the control.
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Mundon, T.R., Murray, A.F., Hallam, J., Patel, L.N. (2005). Causal Neural Control of a Latching Ocean Wave Point Absorber. In: Duch, W., Kacprzyk, J., Oja, E., Zadrożny, S. (eds) Artificial Neural Networks: Formal Models and Their Applications – ICANN 2005. ICANN 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3697. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11550907_67
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