Joint state-parameter estimation for a control-oriented LES wind farm model

Conference Paper (2018)
Author(s)

B. M. Doekemeijer (TU Delft - Team Jan-Willem van Wingerden)

Sjoerd Boersma (TU Delft - Team Jan-Willem van Wingerden)

L.Y. Pao (University of Colorado)

Jan Willem van Wingerden (TU Delft - Team Jan-Willem van Wingerden)

Research Group
Team Jan-Willem van Wingerden
Copyright
© 2018 B.M. Doekemeijer, S. Boersma, L. Y. Pao, J.W. van Wingerden
DOI related publication
https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1037/3/032013
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Publication Year
2018
Language
English
Copyright
© 2018 B.M. Doekemeijer, S. Boersma, L. Y. Pao, J.W. van Wingerden
Research Group
Team Jan-Willem van Wingerden
Volume number
1037
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Abstract

Wind farm control research typically relies on computationally inexpensive, surrogate models for real-time optimization. However, due to the large time delays involved, changing atmospheric conditions and tough-to-model flow and turbine dynamics, these surrogate models need constant calibration. In this paper, a novel real-time (joint state-parameter) estimation solution for a medium-fidelity dynamical wind farm model is presented. In this work, we demonstrate the estimation of the freestream wind speed, local turbulence, and local wind field in a two-turbine wind farm using exclusively turbine power measurements. The estimator employs an Ensemble Kalman filter with a low computational cost of approximately 1.0 s per timestep on a dual-core notebook CPU. This work presents an essential building block for real-time wind farm control using computationally efficient dynamical wind farm models.