The Kinematics of a 3-DOF Mechanism for Wave Energy Converter
As we all know,oceans have great wave power,and many types of wave energy converters (WECs) have been invented so far.Oscillating body systems are a major class of WECs which almost only have one degree of freedom (DOF).This paper presents a 3-DOF mechanism which can extract the wave power from any wave directions.The 3-DOF mechanism mainly consists of a four-bar linkage and a spherical joint,which are used to capture the heave motion and the pitch and roll motions of the oscillating body respectively.The power conversion principle of the WEC is proposed and the kinematics of the mechanism is derived.
WEC Principle 3-DOF mechanism Kinematics
Weixing Chen Feng Gao
State Key Laboratory of Mechanical System and Vibration, Shanghai Jiao Tong University,Shanghai 200240, China
国际会议
广州
英文
879-888
2016-12-15（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）