Impact on the wave parameters estimation of a kinetic energy harvester embedded into a drifter

© 2020 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.Segon Premi de la Student Poster Competition de l’IEEE Oceans Global Congress, 2020The effect of a Kinetic Energy Harvester (KEH) on the wave parameters estimation at a WAVY Ocean (WO) drifter is being studied. An algorithm has been developed to calculate the wave parameters from the Inertial Measuring Unit (IMU) embedded on the drifter. Simulations performed by OrcaFlex have been used to refine the algorithm and assess the measurement errors derived from the drifter response. Finally, a WO prototype has been deployed in the controlled environment of CIEM wave flume. Results prove that the KEH has no significant impact on the wave parameter estimation.This work was supported by the project MELOA from the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 research and Innovation program under Grant Agreement No. 776280. The first author has a grant from the Secretariat of Universities and Research of the Ministry of Business and Knowledge of the Government of Catalonia on the FI program (ref. BDNS 362582).Peer ReviewedAward-winningPostprint (author's final draft