Author: carrieann_barry

Project overview: The ‘Wave-powered data buoy’ project is a 4-year project funded by the Irish Marine Institute as part of the Eoin Sweeney PhD Scholarship Programme. The project intends to design and test a data buoy, exclusively powered by waves, to measure environmental variables associated with the marine environment, include the sea state itself and various properties of the surrounding sea water. It will be wirelessly connected to a shore base and potentially act as a node in an array of such sensors. Innovative aspects of the buoy design will include an energy maximizing control system, and intelligent on-board energy storage, to ensure that adequate power for on-board sensors, and data transmission, is available at all times. The project has a wide range of industrial and academic partners, including the Marine Institute, PLOCAN (Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands), Techworks Marine (Ireland), Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (USA), Dundalk Institute of Technology, and Resolute Marine (USA). COER director John Ringwood is looking...

This week's seminar on Thursday 18th March at 11am via MSTeams, will be presented by Peter Redmond from DCU, and is entitled: Robots: Sci-Fi to Sci-Fact. All are welcome.  If you would like to join us, please contact me at CarrieAnne.Barry@mu.ie See you there!...

PhD Position (4 year studentship@ €18k [tax free] p.a. + fees) The Centre for Ocean Energy Research (COER) at Maynooth University, Ireland has a further opportunity for well-qualified applicants interested in undertaking a funded PhD.   The successful candidate will be involved in a PhD project to develop a small-scale wave powered data buoy. The primary focus of this project is the development of a reliable, efficient and cost-effective power source for marine sensing, based on data buoy movement due to incident waves. Secondary aspects include the integration of the sensor and data transmission systems within the framework of a holistic system that achieves optimal design compromise between power provision, usage, data transmission rates and stability as a sensor platform. The project will include hydrodynamic modelling, PTO modelling, control system design, optimisation sensor design, data transmission system design, simulation and experimental testing, information dissemination and public engagement. This ambitious project will involve collaboration with Dundalk IT (IRL), Techworks Marine (IRL), Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute...

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COER are currently involved in an EU Horizon 2020 project (LiftWEC), which involves the development of a novel wave energy converter whose primary coupling with the waves is through the generation of hydrodynamic lift on a rotating hydrofoil. COER’s work package deals specifically with control strategy development. The internship on offer would explore some interesting optimisation problems that can be examined using the model that is being developed. A background in applied mathematics, or other branches of engineering would be preferable. This is an unpaid internship, although we do offer the possibility to participate in a dynamic research environment, working on a topical research area, amongst highly motivated PhD students, postdocs, and other interns. Intern supervision is jointly managed by the COER Director, Prof John Ringwood, and one of the lab’s postdocs, Dr. Andrei Ermakov. Interns are registered as students of Maynooth University, so have access to all University facilities as well as the COER lab facilities – desk space in...

COER are one of the consortium members of LiftWEC,  a European research project funded by the Horizon 2020 Programme. The project will develop a novel type of Wave Energy Converter, called the LiftWEC, which uses hydrodynamic lift forces to extract wave energy using a rotating hydrofoil. The first LiftWEC newsletter is out.  To find out more about the project click here...