An inertial wave-powered generation system for small ocean science platforms

This paper describes our initial investigation into an inertially coupled wavepower generation system, designed for use in small, low-power, long-endurance ocean exploration robots. The system recovers small amounts of power from movements of the robot caused by ocean waves. The primary focus of the investigation to date has been the development of efficient power recovery system electronics that extract useful power from a range of ocean wave amplitudes and frequencies, and thus a very wide range of generated voltages and currents.

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