SEMINAR AND DISCUSSION ON MATHEMATICAL MODELING AND CONTROL OF MARINE RENEWABLE ENERGY DEVICES
SEMINAR AND DISCUSSION ON MATHEMATICAL MODELING AND CONTROL OF MARINE RENEWABLE ENERGY DEVICES
SEMINAR AND DISCUSSION ON MATHEMATICAL MODELING AND CONTROL OF MARINE RENEWABLE ENERGY DEVICES
The researchers Demian Garcia Violini (National University of Quilmes) and Yerai Peña Sanchez (Centre for Ocean Energy Research, Maynooth University) have visited Mondragon Goi Eskola Politeknikoa and have presented their most relevant research work to the research staff of the university.
The engineering faculty of Mondragon Unibertsitatea has several research groups that develop innovation projects linked to renewable energy, some of them directly related to marine renewable energy. In this context, last September 29, the research staff of the faculty received the visit of researchers Demian Garcia Violini and Yerai Peña Sanchez, two researchers from the Centre for Ocean Energy Research experts in mathematical modeling and control of marine renewable energy devices.
Garcia and Peña have a remarkable professional background in the development of new control algorithms to maximize power generation as they have participated in relevant projects such as NextGen. Both researchers were returning from Aalborg (Denmark) where they have experimented their control algorithms in scale prototypes tested in the wave tanks of the Aalborg University.
The invited researchers visited some of the university's laboratories and then gave a seminar to present the latest advances and developments in their projects. After the intervention, the more than 10 researchers from Mondragon Unibertsitatea who participated in the session, both in person and virtually, exchanged views on the possibility of collaborating in some lines of research of common interest. Some of the topics identified were: the design of control algorithms for wave power devices and their implementation in experimental benches, model reduction using advanced algorithms for various applications such as wave power devices, lithium-ion batteries or power converters.
As a first collaboration between the two institutions, a student of the Degree in Energy Engineering of Mondragon Unibertsitatea will visit the Centre for Ocean Energy Research to do her final degree work on the experimentation of these control algorithms in dry test benches.
We hope the visit was fruitful and that we will be able to develop collaborative projects in the near future. See you soon!