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Gaspar, J.F., Pinheiro, R.F., Mendes, M.J.G.C., Kamarlouei, M. and Guedes Soares, C. (2024), Review on Hardware-In-The-Loop simulation of wave energy converters and power take-offs, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Vol. 191, 114144
This paper reviews the state-of-the-art on Hardware-In-The-Loop simulation methodologies and technologies applied in the research field of wave energy converters. It reveals important issues, such as an unclear taxonomy and representations of these methodologies, which are critical for the success of the approach, mostly during the design of experiments and presentation of results. Moreover, a classification approach of these methodologies is not found in the literature. Thus, a generic taxonomical and classification framework is developed to support the revision process, but also for articulation, development and utilization by researchers and developers. This framework is built based on three taxonomic domains that the review shows to be effective in organizing the reviewed methodologies, which are named as numerical simulation, real and interface domains. In particular, the definition of the interface domain is key to overcome the limitations found in the methodological representations. Furthermore, this review borrows the term actionability to this approach to better understand the nuances and gaps between the reviewed case studies. It also purposes it as a tool for the development of more systematic, broader and top to bottom view of experiments. On the other hand, it is found that the different technical implementations are easily organized with the proposed framework, and the results cover a wide range of wave energy converter development phases. Likewise, this review shows that are opportunities for improvements in the methodology and application to a wider number of new case studies.
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