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Journal Articles

A New Web-type Concept of Floating Photovoltaic Farms in Open Sea Environment

Published in Engineering - Large Offshore Floating Structure, 2025

This paper is about the concept of a spiderweb-like floating PV system. It explores modules connected with ropes and investigates their hydrodynamic behaviour.

Recommended citation: Yuan, Z. M., Yu, S. R., & Incecik, A. (2025). " A New Web-type Concept of Floating Photovoltaic Farms in Open Sea Environment." Engineering. 1(2).
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Motion Control of Floating Wind-Wave Energy Platforms

Published in Marine Energy Research, 2025

This paper is about the control of a semi-submersible platform connected with a movable heave plate. Platform motion is reduced by actively tuning the interaction between the plate and the platform.

Recommended citation: Yu, S. R., Yuan, Z. M., & Incecik, A. (2025). "Motion Control of Floating Wind-Wave Energy Platforms." Marine Energy Research. 2(1).
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Optimal declutching control of hinged multiple floating bodies

Published in Ocean Engineering, 2024

This paper is about the control of multiple floating bodies, especially on systems connected by hinges. It explores the effects of control based on different optimisation objectives.

Recommended citation: Yu, S. R., Zhang, M., Zhang, D. Q., & Yuan, Z. M. (2024). " Optimal declutching control of hinged multiple floating bodies." Ocean Engineering. 306(117992).
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Conference Papers

Pitch motion control of spar-type floating wind turbines

Published in International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering (OMAE2023), 2023

The present study proposes an active structural control method utilizing a plate hinged at the bottom of a spar-type floating substructure as an external control device. The controller is developed under an optimal declutching control framework, in which the damping coefficient of the PTO system is set as a binary function. It is found that current optimal declutching control strategy can effectively minimize the pitch motion of the spar-type substructure and maximize the PTO’s power simultaneously.

Recommended citation: Yu, S.R. (2024). " Pitch motion control of spar-type floating wind turbines." International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering. 86908(V008T09A027).
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