Abstract
Recent work demonstrated the benefits of preview wind measurements for turbine control. This paper investigates the basic design tradeoffs between turbine performance, preview time, and pitch actuator rate limits. A Region 3 rotor-speed tracking problem is formulated in continuous-time as an optimal control problem using a simple one-state rigid body turbine model. The exact analytical solution to this problem provides insight into the fundamental performance limits. These analytical results are compared with the performance of an H∞ preview controller simulated on a higher fidelity, nonlinear turbine model with realistic wind sensor models. The performance versus preview time characteristics of the H∞ controllers are in agreement with the predictions from the lower fidelity model. Thus, the analytical results obtained with the low-order model can provide design guidelines for the use of preview information in turbine control.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 6523979 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1143-1154 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue number | 4 |
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| State | Published - 2013 |
Keywords
- Preview control
- wind turbines
