Feedforward control for wave disturbance rejection on floating offshore wind turbines

Master thesis (2020)

Authors

M.K. Al Mechanical Engineering

Contributors

J.W. van Wingerden Team Jan-Willem van Wingerden - Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering (mentor)
D.C. van der Hoek Team Jan-Willem van Wingerden - Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering (graduation committee member)
Faculty
Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
Copyright: © 2020 Mees Al
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Published Date

10-01-2020

Language

English

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Faculty

Mechanical Engineering

Abstract

Classical feedback control for floating offshore wind turbines has limited capabilities to reduce wave disturbances. Feedforward control uses disturbance measurement, to construct an additional control law such that the disturbance is attenuated. The main objective of this work is to prove the concept of wave-FF control to attenuate wave disturbances. High-fidelity simulations demonstrate that FF control, based on wave measurements, is able to reject wave disturbances on the rotor speed effectively.