wave energy converter
PhD in Computer Science: Development of machine learning techniques for the modelling of the sea's surface shape from video observations, with the aim of improving the safety of maritime operations and the power output of wave energy converters at University of Exeter
The safety of critical maritime operations and the power output of wave energy converters can both be improved by measuring and predicting the shape and motion of sea waves. The aim of this project is extract information from monoscopic video footage of the sea's surface that enable its shape and motion to be modelled. The models will then be used to predict its future motion up to two minutes ahead. Making observations of the shapes of sea waves is difficult. We have been working with wave profiling radar, which is relatively expensive and difficult to install and run.