Fault Tolerant and Optimal Control of Wind Turbines with Distributed High-Speed Generators

Giger, Urs; Kühne, Patrick; Schulte, Horst

doi:10.3390/en10020149

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“…However, over-actuation could also be used to switch off individual generators at partial load or in the event of a fault. A concept that is fault-tolerant in case of a generator fault was presented in [8]. This will not be discussed further here, but is an important approach to consider in a future study along with the multi-rotor system.…”

Section: Multi-generator Drive Trainmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Design Study of Multi-Rotor and Multi-Generator Wind Turbine with Lattice Tower—A Mechatronic Approach

Giger¹,

Kleinhansl

Schulte

2021

Applied Sciences

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New locations for onshore technology, which have not been considered so far, must be developed to increase the total installed capacity of renewable energies, especially wind energy. For this purpose, cost-effective wind turbines, even in difficult-to-access locations, such as mountainous and high-mountainous areas, must be designed. This paper presents a novel wind turbine with a related control system that meets these requirements. The proposed turbine uses a multi-rotor configuration with five rotors arranged in a star shape configuration. Each rotor drive train combines up to 12 generators in a maintenance-friendly multi-generator concept. A suitable observer-based control for load mitigation in the full-load region is proposed for the multi-rotor and multi-generator design. Simulations are used to demonstrate the applicability and practical benefits of this concept.

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Section: Multi-generator Drive Trainmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The wind turbine system can continue to produce power in the occurrence of individual faults. In [8], a fault-tolerant control concept for the multirotor system was presented for achieving this.…”

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Design Study of Multi-Rotor and Multi-Generator Wind Turbine with Lattice Tower—A Mechatronic Approach

Giger¹,

Kleinhansl

Schulte

2021

Applied Sciences

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“…The HAWT control design has gained significant importance during the last decades. Viable solutions available in the related literature may vary from linear PID [6], linear parameter varying control [7], adaptive nonlinear control [10], optimal control [11], evolutionary algorithms [12], robust control [13] and fuzzy logic systems [14]. However, these solutions fail to operate satisfactorily in the presence of faults.…”

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confidence: 99%

Decoupling Adaptive Sliding Mode Observer Design for Wind Turbines Subject to Simultaneous Faults in Sensors and Actuators

Habibi

Howard

Simani

et al. 2021

IEEE/CAA J. Autom. Sinica

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This paper proposes an Adaptive Sliding Mode Observer (ASMO)-based approach for wind turbines subject to simultaneous faults in sensors and actuators. The proposed approach enables the simultaneous detection of actuator and sensor faults without the need for any redundant hardware components. Additionally, wind speed variations are considered as unknown disturbances, thus eliminating the need for accurate measurement or estimation. The proposed ASMO enables the accurate estimation and reconstruction of the descriptor states and disturbances. The proposed design implements the principle of separation to enable the use of the nominal controller during faulty conditions. Fault tolerance is achieved by implementing a signal correction scheme to recover the nominal behavior. The performance of the proposed approach is validated using a 4.8 MW wind turbine benchmark model subject to various faults. Monte-Carlo analysis is also carried out to further evaluate the reliability and robustness of the proposed approach in the presence of measurement errors. Simplicity, ease of implementation and the decoupling property are among the positive features of the proposed approach.

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“…However, as wind turbines are complex nonlinear dynamic processes, linear controllers may not accurately render the expected performance [6]. Consequently, in the last decade, modern and advanced controller schemes have been adopted to regulate power generation accurately, e.g., linear parameter varying control [7], gain scheduling [8], adaptive nonlinear control [9], optimal control [10], evolutionary algorithms [11], robust control [12], and fuzzy logic systems [13]. A detailed review of power regulation controllers designed for wind turbines can be found in [14].…”

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Fault-Tolerant Neuro Adaptive Constrained Control of Wind Turbines for Power Regulation with Uncertain Wind Speed Variation

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This paper presents a novel adaptive fault-tolerant neural-based control design for wind turbines with an unknown dynamic and unknown wind speed. By utilizing the barrier Lyapunov function in the analysis of the Lyapunov direct method, the constrained behavior of the system is provided in which the rotor speed, its variation, and generated power remain in the desired bounds. In addition, input saturation is also considered in terms of smooth pitch actuator bounding. Furthermore, by utilizing a Nussbaum-type function in designing the control algorithm, the unpredictable wind speed variation is captured without requiring accurate wind speed measurement, observation, or estimation. Moreover, with the proposed adaptive analytic algorithms, together with the use of radial basis function neural networks, a robust, adaptive, and fault-tolerant control scheme is developed without the need for precise information about the wind turbine model nor the pitch actuator faults. Additionally, the computational cost of the resultant control law is reduced by utilizing a dynamic surface control technique. The effectiveness of the developed design is verified using theoretical analysis tools and illustrated by numerical simulations on a high-fidelity wind turbine benchmark model with different fault scenarios. Comparison of the achieved results to the ones that can be obtained via an available industrial controller shows the advantages of the proposed scheme.

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Fault Tolerant and Optimal Control of Wind Turbines with Distributed High-Speed Generators

Cited by 9 publications

References 20 publications

Design Study of Multi-Rotor and Multi-Generator Wind Turbine with Lattice Tower—A Mechatronic Approach

Design Study of Multi-Rotor and Multi-Generator Wind Turbine with Lattice Tower—A Mechatronic Approach

Decoupling Adaptive Sliding Mode Observer Design for Wind Turbines Subject to Simultaneous Faults in Sensors and Actuators

Fault-Tolerant Neuro Adaptive Constrained Control of Wind Turbines for Power Regulation with Uncertain Wind Speed Variation

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