A novel control architecture for floating wind turbines
A.R.M. Hegazy (TU Delft - Team Jan-Willem van Wingerden)
P. Naaijen (TU Delft - Ship Hydromechanics and Structures)
J.W. van Wingerden (TU Delft - Team Jan-Willem van Wingerden)
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Abstract
The control of Floating Wind Turbines (FWTs) is challenging, as they possess much lower natural frequencies related to the structure's rigid body motion, which creates an undesirable coupling between tower motion and the blade pitch control. As a result, the tower motion is negatively damped triggering instability. This is because of the presence of Right Half Plane Zeros (RHPZs) imposing fundamental limitation on the control bandwidth. To address this problem, different solutions were proposed with varying control structures ranging from Single-Input, Single-Output (SISO) controllers to Multiple-input, Multiple-output (MIMO) ones. In this paper, a new control structure, of Single-Input, Multiple-Output (SIMO) is proposed that is able to lift the bandwidth limitation, while using simple elements that match the industry demands.
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