Print Email Facebook Twitter On the ill-conditioning of the combined wind speed estimator and tip-speed ratio tracking control scheme Title On the ill-conditioning of the combined wind speed estimator and tip-speed ratio tracking control scheme Author Brandetti, L. (TU Delft Wind Energy) Liu, Y. (TU Delft Team Riccardo Ferrari) Mulders, S.P. (TU Delft Team Jan-Willem van Wingerden) Ferreira, Carlos (TU Delft Wind Energy) Watson, S.J. (TU Delft Wind Energy) van Wingerden, J.W. (TU Delft Team Jan-Willem van Wingerden) Date 2022 Abstract In recent years, industrial controllers for modern wind turbines have been designed as a combined wind speed estimator and tip-speed ratio (WSE-TSR) tracking control scheme. In contrast to the conventional and widely used Kω 2 torque control strategy, the WSE-TSR scheme provides flexibility in terms of controller responsiveness and potentially improves power extraction performance. However, both control schemes heavily rely on prior information about the aerodynamic properties of the turbine rotor. Using a control-oriented linear analysis framework, this paper shows that the WSE-TSR scheme is inherently ill-conditioned. The ill-conditioning is defined as the inability of the scheme to uniquely determine the wind speed from the product with other model parameters in the power balance equation. Uncertainty of the power coefficient contribution in the latter mentioned product inevitably leads to a biased effective wind speed estimate. As a consequence, in the presence of uncertainty, the real-world wind turbine deviates from the intended optimal operating point, while the controller believes that the turbine operates at the desired set-point. Simulation results confirm that inaccurate model parameters lead to biased estimates of the actual turbine operating point, causing sub-optimal power extraction efficiency. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:d3d02fc2-300c-4464-a0bb-b886a423a040 DOI https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2265/3/032085 ISSN 1742-6588 Source Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2265 (3) Event 2022 Science of Making Torque from Wind, TORQUE 2022, 2022-06-01 → 2022-06-03, Delft, Netherlands Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2022 L. Brandetti, Y. Liu, S.P. Mulders, Carlos Ferreira, S.J. Watson, J.W. van Wingerden Files PDF Brandetti_2022_J._Phys._C ... 032085.pdf 1.68 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:d3d02fc2-300c-4464-a0bb-b886a423a040/datastream/OBJ/view