06 Fakultät Luft- und Raumfahrttechnik und Geodäsie

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    Nonlinear model predictive control of floating wind turbines
    (2013) Schlipf, David; Sandner, Frank; Raach, Steffen; Matha, Denis; Cheng, Po Wen
    In this work a nonlinear model predictive control method for a floating wind turbine is presented. A reduced nonlinear model including disturbance preview of wind and waves is derived and implemented to compute optimal input trajectories for collective pitch and the generator torque. A cost functional is introduced which fulfills all desired constraints and controller goals for above rated wind conditions. The controller is tested for extreme and fatigue load cases and a significant reduction of the power and rotor speed deviations is obtained. Furthermore, ultimate tower loads and damage equivalent loads on shaft and blades are decreased. Although more detailed testing is necessary, this preliminary results show the advantages of nonlinear model predictive control for floating wind turbines.
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    Nonlinear model predictive control of floating wind turbines with individual pitch control
    (2014) Raach, Steffen; Schlipf, David; Sandner, Frank; Matha, Denis; Cheng, Po Wen
    In this work a nonlinear model predictive controller with individual pitch control for a floating offshore wind turbine is presented. An aerodynamic model of the collective pitch control approach is extended by describing pitching and yawing moments based on rotor disk theory. This extension is implemented in a reduced nonlinear model of the floating wind turbine including disturbance preview of wind speed, linear vertical and horizontal wind shear, and wave height to compute optimal input trajectories for the individual pitch control inputs and the generator torque. An extended cost functional for individual pitch control is proposed based on the collective pitch control approach. The controller is evaluated in aero-servo-hydro-elastic simulations of a 5MW reference wind turbine disturbed by a three-dimensional stochastic turbulent wind field. Results show a significant blade fatigue load reduction compared to a baseline controller through minimizing yawing and pitching moments on the rotor hub while maintaining the advantages of the model predictive control approach with collective pitch control.