{"id":352,"date":"2024-09-13T00:04:10","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T00:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/marineautonomy\/?page_id=352"},"modified":"2024-11-23T01:47:45","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T01:47:45","slug":"wave-energy-convertor-unmanned-underwater-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/marineautonomy\/wave-energy-convertor-unmanned-underwater-vehicle\/","title":{"rendered":"Wave Energy Convertor \u2013 Unmanned Underwater Vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sponsor: Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command<br>Project Leads: Jim Thomson (UW-APL), Bryson Robertson (OSU)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4109\/files\/2021\/01\/OceanPhotoShop_WECUUV_v6-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4109\/files\/2021\/01\/OceanPhotoShop_WECUUV_v6-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4109\/files\/2021\/01\/OceanPhotoShop_WECUUV_v6-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4109\/files\/2021\/01\/OceanPhotoShop_WECUUV_v6-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4109\/files\/2021\/01\/OceanPhotoShop_WECUUV_v6-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4109\/files\/2021\/01\/OceanPhotoShop_WECUUV_v6.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Wave Energy Converter (WEC) harnessing renewable wave energy to power underwater vehicles for autonomous missions (Image Credit: Matthew Leary, OSU)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/marineautonomy\/projects\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"472\">Return to projects page<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sponsor: Naval Facilities Engineering Systems CommandProject 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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/marineautonomy\/wave-energy-convertor-unmanned-underwater-vehicle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wave Energy Convertor \u2013 Unmanned Underwater Vehicle&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":199,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-352","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/marineautonomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/marineautonomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/marineautonomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/marineautonomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/marineautonomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/marineautonomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/marineautonomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/352\/revisions\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/marineautonomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}