Sponsor: Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command
Project Leads: Jim Thomson (UW-APL), Bryson Robertson (OSU)
This project is advancing fundamental understanding and capabilities of wave energy systems to power autonomous assets in remote and forward-deployed environments. The project includes the evaluation and improvement of numerical modeling tools, the fabrication of a complete prototype, and field testing. The prototype will charge an inspection-class tethered unmanned underwater vehicle that will dock on the underside of a Wave Energy Converter platform.
