no code implementations • 4 Sep 2023 • Atindriyo K. Pamososuryo, Sebastiaan P. Mulders, Riccardo Ferrari, Jan-Willem van Wingerden
The high-fidelity OpenFAST wind turbine software evaluates the proposed controller scheme, demonstrating effective reduction of the 1P periodic loading and the tower's natural frequency excitation in the side-side tower motion.
no code implementations • 22 Sep 2022 • Jean Gonzalez Silva, Riccardo Ferrari, Jan-Willem van Wingerden
Although this balance is limited by the wind availability and grid demand, the quality of wind energy can be improved by introducing down-regulation strategies that make use of the kinetic energy of the turbine dynamics.
no code implementations • 11 Apr 2022 • Jean Gonzalez Silva, Bart Matthijs Doekemeijer, Riccardo Ferrari, Jan-Willem van Wingerden
This paper presents a closed-loop controller for wind farms to provide active power control services using a high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics based wind plant simulator.
no code implementations • 11 Apr 2022 • Jean Gonzalez Silva, Daan van der Hoek, Sebastiaan Paul Mulders, Riccardo Ferrari, Jan-Willem van Wingerden
Based on the structural health condition of the tower, power de-rating strategies can be used to reduce structural loads at the cost of power losses. This paper introduces a novel closed-loop switching control architecture to constrain the thrust in individual turbines.
no code implementations • 13 Sep 2021 • Mohamed Baioumy, Corrado Pezzato, Carlos Hernandez Corbato, Nick Hawes, Riccardo Ferrari
This work presents a fault-tolerant control scheme for sensory faults in robotic manipulators based on active inference.
no code implementations • 8 Apr 2021 • Jean Gonzalez Silva, Bart Doekemeijer, Riccardo Ferrari, Jan-Willem van Wingerden
For compensation purposes, the dynamics of power tracking in the wind turbines is approximated as a pure time-delay process, and the thrust force balance design is based on an identified linear model of the turbines.
no code implementations • 7 Apr 2021 • Yichao Liu, Atindriyo Kusumo Pamososuryo, Riccardo Ferrari, Tobias Gybel Hovgaard, Jan-Willem van Wingerden
Modern wind turbine control algorithms typically utilize rotor effective wind speed measured from an anemometer on the turbine's nacelle.