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Alfredo Fernández Sisón
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Accurate knowledge of the input torque in wind turbine gearboxes is key to improving their reliability. Traditionally, rotor torque is measured using strain gauges bonded to the shaft. Transferring the resulting signal from the rotating shaft to a stationary data acquisition syst
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Wind turbine technology has seen remarkable advancements in the last decades. Most notably, the rated power and size of wind turbines have grown considerably to reduce the cost of energy from wind. The increase in rotor diameters has pushed gearbox manufacturers to introduce mult
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The significant increase in rotor diameters seen in modern wind turbines has pushed gearbox manufacturers to introduce technological innovations to increase the torque density of current designs. Driven by the need to lower the cost of energy from wind and size limitations impose
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Torque measurements from MW wind turbine Gearboxes
A system identification approach
The gearbox is a critical component of modern MW wind turbines. An accurate model of the gearbox dynamics is needed to improve gearbox design, develop advanced control algorithms, and more effective fault diagnosis tools which could lead to lower the cost of energy from wind. The
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