Importance of Dynamic Inflow Model Predictive Control of Wind Turbines

Peter Fogh Odgaard; Torben Knudsen; Anders Overgaard; Henrik Steffensen; Martin Østergaard Jørgensen

doi:10.1016/j.ifacol.2015.12.359

Importance of Dynamic Inflow Model Predictive Control of Wind Turbines

Peter Fogh Odgaard, Torben Knudsen, Anders Overgaard, Henrik Steffensen, Martin Østergaard Jørgensen

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The efficiency of including dynamic inflow in the model based design of wind turbine controller has been discussed for many years in the wind energy community with out getting to a safe conclusion. This paper delivers a good argument in favor of including dynamic inflow. The main contributions are the use of a very simple inflow model, developed by one of the authors and the use of Pareto fronts to facilitate a safe conclusion. The approach is to compare MPC controllers designed with respectively without including dynamic inflow for a mean wind speed just above rated where this dynamics are most pronounces. For this the well accepted NREL 5MW reference turbine simulated with FAST is used. The main result is a reduction in tower fatigue load at 22% while power error, rotor speed error, generator torque and pitch rate is improved from 2 to 33%.

Original language	English
Book series	I F A C Workshop Series
Volume	48
Issue number	30
Pages (from-to)	90-95
ISSN	1474-6670
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2015.12.359
Publication status	Published - Dec 2015
Event	9th IFAC Symposium on Control of Power and Energy Systems CPES 2015 - New Delhi, India Duration: 9 Dec 2015 → 11 Dec 2015

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Conference	9th IFAC Symposium on Control of Power and Energy Systems CPES 2015
Country/Territory	India
City	New Delhi
Period	09/12/2015 → 11/12/2015

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