Call for Participants

Call for Participants

The 63rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) will be held in Milan, Italy, from December 16th to 19th, 2024. COER Research Fellow Siyuan Zhan is co-organising a special session on 'Unconventional Control Problems in Net-Zero Carbon Systems' together with Yao Zhang, Wen-Hua Chen, and John Ringwood. To submit your paper, please visit https://lnkd.in/e2HskK8t and select 'Invited Session Paper'. Don't forget to quote the code: 872uw for the invited session. #ieeeconference #controlsystems #netzero With increasing global concerns about climate change and energy security, recent decades have witnessed substantial growth in the development of net-zero carbon systems. Control can play a critical role in enhancing functionality and/or increasing economic performance. Nevertheless, many unconventional control problems arise from net-zero carbon systems, where the primary task is not to regulate to a setpoint or track a reference signal, but to optimize high-level goals such as productivity, energy production, and energy consumption. This creates new challenges for the control community. Motivated by the above facts, this invited session is devoted to control...
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John Ringwood elevated to IEEE Fellow

John Ringwood elevated to IEEE Fellow

John Ringwood, Professor Electronic Engineering and Director of the Centre for Ocean Energy Research at Maynooth University, has been elevated to Fellow of the Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He is the 17th IEEE Fellow in Ireland and the first within the domain of control systems, nominated within the IEEE Control Systems Society, for his work on the development of energy-maximising control techniques for wave energy systems. Elevation to IEEE Fellow is a significant distinction, with a maximum of 0.1% of the total IEEE membership elevated in any one year. There is no application process – prospective Fellows must be independently nominated by another Fellow and supported by another 5 Fellows, distributed internationally. From the nominations, only around 30% are elevated. At the recent IEEE Conference on Decision and Control held in Singapore, John, along with co-authors from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy and Imperial College, London, was awarded the 2023 Outstanding Paper Prize for the IEEE Transactions on Control...
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2 x funded 4-year PhD studentships – control of wave energy systems

2 x funded 4-year PhD studentships – control of wave energy systems

€22,000 stipend p.a. (tax free) + PhD fees + research expenses + travel The Centre for Ocean Energy Research (COER) at Maynooth University, Ireland has further opportunities for well-qualified applicants interested in PhD level research on the control of wave energy systems as part of 2 prestigious new projects under the supervision of Prof. John Ringwood FIEEE: Economic wave energy through technical innovation (SeaChange) MaxRotorWEC – a new control strategy for cyclorotor-based wave energy converters SeaChange Project Despite the vast global wave energy potential, and the need to diversify the range of renewable energy sources to provide dispatchable carbon-free energy, the current cost of wave energy makes it relatively uneconomic in relation to other renewable, and non-renewable, energy forms. This project proposes a combination of strategic technological improvements, with both broad applicability as well as specific device improvements, to effect a significant impact on the economic performance of wave energy systems and produce the step change needed to accelerate the technical and commercial development of...
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ENAEM-COER workshop

ENAEM-COER workshop

From the 6th to 8th November, the Argentine Network of Marine Energies (REMA), in collaboration with the Center for Ocean Energy Research (COER), Maynooth University, Ireland, and the Marine Offshore Renewable Energy Lab (MOREnergy Lab), Politecnico di Torino, Italy, hosted the 8th Wave Energy Workshop in conjunction with the 2023 Argentine Meeting on Marine Energies (ENAEM 2023). This three-day event featured presentations and discussions on a wide range of topics related to ocean energy, with a focus on hydrodynamic modeling, control, resource assessment, and wave energy technology enhancement. The scope also included topics such as environmental impact, structural mechanics, and the economic, legal, and political aspects of ocean energy. Additionally, the workshop covered the latest developments in high-fidelity simulations and advanced numerical methods used in the field. ...
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A MoodyMarine workshop

A MoodyMarine workshop

We were delighted to welcome Johannes Palm from Sigma Energy Marine and Claes Eskilsson from Research Institutes Sweden, who visited COER to give a workshop to introduce the simulation tool MoodyMarine, developed to help meet some of the demands for early stage development of MRE devices. MoodyMarine extends the previously released mooring module MoodyCore (Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Elements) with linear radiation-diffraction bodies, integrated pre-processing workflows and a graphical user interface. It is a C++ implementation of finite element mooring dynamics and Cummins equations for floating bodies with weak nonlinear corrections....
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COER @EWTEC 2023

COER @EWTEC 2023

Highlights from this September's EWTEC conference in Bilbao included 8 COER presentations, technical trips to the Mutriku Power Plant and Bimep, a gala dinner to remember at the Guggenheim museum, but most importantly, the opportunity to connect and reconnect with the wave and tidal energy community....
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The InDEEP Challenge – phase 1 still open

The InDEEP Challenge – phase 1 still open

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Water Power Technologies Office is launching the Innovating Distributed Embedded Energy Prize (InDEEP) to encourage innovation in distributed embedded energy converter technology (DEEC-Tec, pronounced “deck tech”) to generate new, precommercial materials for wave energy conversion. This prize will challenge innovators from within and beyond wave energy to design and develop novel materials for marine energy applications that will lay the foundation for generating electricity at the grid scale. This three-phase, two-year competition is offering a combined cash prize pool up to $2.3 million. Teams will also receive technical support, teaming support, and other forms of mentorship throughout the prize to enable their success. Competitors will use innovative methods to identify DEEC-Tec components and materials that have high techno-economic potential for wave energy converters. Successful concepts developed through this prize are those that show the greatest techno-economic potential to contribute to grid-scale power systems. Through this prize, WPTO seeks to meet the following goals: Leverage innovation to systematically develop DEEC-Tec concepts that could...
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New PhD position available – €19k p.a. + fees + expenses

COER has a further opportunity for a well-qualified applicant interested in PhD level research on a prestigious, new Science Foundation Ireland, Irish Research Council “Pathways” wave energy project. This project follows on from the successful EU-funded LiftWEC project (https://liftwec.com/) which developed fundamental cyclorotor technology. The current project is entitled: “Maximising the power capture from cyclorotor wave energy converters”. and focuses on development of a control system to maximise power capture, with associated activities of hydrodynamic modelling and estimation/forecasting. A tax-free stipend of €19,000 per year is available, and PhD fees are also covered. The project also provides adequate funding for equipment, materials, and travel (conferences, courses, etc), as well as secondment to project partners.  The position is tenable for a 4-year structured PhD. Applicants should be well qualified to bachelors (H1) or master’s degree level in one of the following areas: ocean engineering, aerospace engineering, hydrodynamics, applied mathematics or control engineering. The project will be supervised by Dr. Andrei Ermakov and co-supervised by Prof. John...
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