An iterative re-weighted least-squares algorithm for the design of active absorbing wavemaker controller

作     者：杨洪齐 李木国 柳淑学 陈芳梅 

作者机构：State Key Laboratory of Coastal and Offshore Engineering Dalian University of Technology The Department of Electronic Engineering Tsinghua University 

出 版 物：《Journal of Hydrodynamics》 (水动力学研究与进展B辑（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2016年第28卷第2期

页      面：206-218页

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学科分类：08[工学] 0824[工学-船舶与海洋工程] 

基　　金：supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51221961) the National Key Basic Research Development Program of China(973 Program,Grant Nos.2013CB036101,2011CB013703) 

主　　题：wavemaker active absorption infinite impulse response (IIR) digital filters optimization methods 

摘      要：In physical model tests for highly reflective structures, one often encounters a problem of multiple reflections between the reflective structures and the wavemaker. Absorbing wavemakers can cancel the re-reflective waves by adjusting the paddle motion. In this paper, we propose a method to design the controller of the 2-D absorbing wavemaker system in the wave flume. Based on the first-order wavemaker theory, a frequency domain absorption transfer function is derived. Its time realization can be obtained by de- signing an infinite impulse response （IIR） digital filter, which is expected to approximate the absorption transfer function in the least- squares sense. A commonly used approach to determine the parameters of the IIR filter is applying the Taylor expansion to linearize the filter formulation and solving the linear least-squares problem. However, the result is not optimal because the linearization cha- nges the original objective function. To improve the approximation performance, we propose an iterative reweighted least-squares （IRLS） algorithm and demonstrate that with the filters designed by this algorithm, the approximation errors can be reduced. Physical experiments are carried out with the designed controller. The results show that the system performs well for both regular and irregu- lar waves.