Team AquaHarmonics arrived at the University of Michigan just in time to enjoy some chilly winter weather. However, the world class climate controlled wave tank at the University of Michigan’s Marine Hydrodynamic Laboratory helped keep us focused on testing without having to bundle up. Working with Steve, Brent and Nick was fantastic and having a top notch support team made it so we were able to complete all our required testing with no issues by Thursday afternoon.

We brought along our control system that we had shelved prior to starting work on the Wave Energy Prize and after accidentally frying a Rasberry Pi during and then finding a replacement at a local Radio Shack,we were up and running again Friday morning.

The team managed to fit in an additional 20 runs with our preliminary control system! We look forward to receiving our terabyte of data from the testing and learning more about our device. We are now designing our 1/20th scale device and will continue working on our control system as well as revising our numerical analysis.

Thanks to the talented Steve, Brent, and Nick for their great work over the week, their setup is fantastic!

Also thanks to the AquaHarmonics support team, Rebecca, Nicki and Chris!

The link below is a short summary of out testing and the last clip of the device in the tank is testing with our control system.

Go AquaHarmonics!