Scheduled state feedback control of a wind turbine

Journal article (2020)

Authors

D.C. van der Hoek Team Jan-Willem van Wingerden - Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering
W. Yu TNO
Research Group
Team Jan-Willem van Wingerden (Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2020 W. P. Engels, D.C. van der Hoek, W. Yu, R. Reyes Baez
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1618/2/022064
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Published Date

2020

Language

English

Faculty

Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering

Department

Delft Center for Systems and Control

Research Group

Team Jan-Willem van Wingerden

Abstract

Many wind turbines are still controlled using gain scheduled, PI(D) controllers. Another option is to use a state feedback controller, such as LQG control. However, for wind turbines that is not straight forward solution, because the system is non-linear and the impact of pitching on the states varies in time. This paper presents a variation on state feedback control. An Extended Kalman Filter is combined with gain scheduling of the state feedback gains depending on aero-dynamic sensitivities, which enables an approximation of non-linear control. This controller structure is intended to be used in more comprehensive controller optimisation studies. The scheduled state feedback controller shows good behaviour and can outperform the original PID controller.