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Control System Design for Flapping-type Tidal Energy Harvester

Indra Hartarto Tambunan, Taesam Kang, Adi Putra Hendra, Hoon Cheol Park, Jin Hwan Ko

Abstract


This paper describes an implementation of a PID-based controller for a flapping type energy harvester system. The dynamic model of the system is obtained from the plant which includes flapping arm, pitching hydroplane, gear, and timing belt. The controller design objective is to obtain a sinusoidal of flapping arm ψ motion through
the control of pitching hydroplane θ. Frequency domain and time domain analysis of the control systems are presented, as well as real experimental results. Simulation and experimental results demonstrate that the performances of the control system and its
algorithm are very nice and could be applied for real systems.

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21535%2FProICIUS.2013.v9.226

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