Control can improve the performance of wind turbines by enhancing energy capture and reducing dynamic loads. At the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, we are beginning to design control algorithms for regulation of turbine speed and power using state-space control designs. In this paper, we describe the design of such a control algorithm for regulation of rotor speed in full-load operation (region 3) for a two-bladed wind turbine. We base our control design on simple linear models of a turbine, which contain rotor and generator rotation, drivetrain torsion, and rotor flap degrees of freedom (first mode only). We account for wind-speed fluctuations using disturbance-accommodating control. We show the capability of these control schemes to stabilize the modeled turbine modes via pole placement, while using state estimation to reduce the number of turbine measurements that are needed for these control algorithms. We incorporate these controllers into the FAST_AD code and show simulation results for various conditions. Finally we report conclusions to this work and outline future studies.
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ASME 2002 Wind Energy Symposium
January 14–17, 2002
Reno, Nevada, USA
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Alan D. Wright,
Alan D. Wright
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO
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Mark J. Balas
Mark J. Balas
University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO
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Alan D. Wright
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO
Mark J. Balas
University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO
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WIND2002-52, pp. 299-309; 11 pages
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February 24, 2009
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Wright, AD, & Balas, MJ. "Design of State-Space-Based Control Algorithms for Wind Turbine Speed Regulation." Proceedings of the ASME 2002 Wind Energy Symposium. ASME 2002 Wind Energy Symposium. Reno, Nevada, USA. January 14–17, 2002. pp. 299-309. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/WIND2002-52
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