Welcome!

[hamilton8415]

Welcome to the MBARI Wave-Energy Converter simulation and control project. We have recently made the first release of this platform and welcome all interested users. As described in more detail at the documentation site https://osrf.github.io/mbari_wec/, this project provides an interface and simulation environment to allow developers outside of our organization access to our wave-energy converter hardware. The intent is to facilitate wave-energy control-system research, demonstration, and education. This project provides a simulation environment that can be run immediately, installation instructions are included in the documentation. Successful projects will also have an opportunity to run code on the MBARI wave-energy converter during our regular deployments in Monterey Bay.

We will be continuing to refine the code and documentation, and this discussion board is the best place to get help. Myself (@hamilton8415) and MBARI engineer Michael Anderson (@andermi) are available to help with any issues that come up, so please feel free to post questions or suggestions of material that we can add to the documentation. No issue is too small and we will try to respond as soon as possible. Additionally, we are available to consider feature requests, and of course would love to consider any Pull Requests.

This project is a collaboration between MBARI (www.mbari.org) and Open Robotics, and is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and MBARI.

Thanks! We look forward to hearing from you. -- Andrew Hamilton