Control design for a two-bladed downwind teeterless damped free-yaw wind turbine

Journal article (2016)

Authors

E. van Solingen Team Raf Van de Plas - Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering
J Beerens 2-B Energy
S.P. Mulders Team Raf Van de Plas - Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering
R. De Breuker Aerospace Structures & Computational Mechanics - Aerospace Engineering
J.W. van Wingerden Team Raf Van de Plas - Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering
Research Group
Team Raf Van de Plas (Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering) (TU Delft)
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Published Date

2016

Language

English

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Faculty

Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering

Department

Delft Center for Systems and Control

Research Group

Team Raf Van de Plas

Abstract

In this paper, a control architecture for a two-bladed downwind teeterless damped free-yaw wind turbine is developed. The wind turbine features a physical yaw damper which provides damping to the yawing motion of the rotor-nacelle assembly. Individual Pitch Control (IPC)1 is employed to obtain yaw control so as to actively track the wind direction and to reduce the turbine loads. The objectives of both load and yaw control by IPC are conflicting and therefore two decoupling strategies are presented and compared in terms of controller design, stability, and turbine loads. The design of the different controllers and the physical yaw damping are coupled and have a large impact on the turbine loads. It is shown that the tuning of the controllers and the choice of the yaw damping value involve a tradeoff between blade and tower loads. All results have been obtained by high-fidelity simulations of the state-of-the-art 2-B Energy 2B6 wind turbine.