Experimental wind tunnel testing of linear individual pitch control for two-bladed wind turbines

Experimental wind tunnel testing of linear individual pitch control for two-bladed wind turbines

Van Solingen, E.
Navalkar, S.T.
Van Wingerden, J.W.

Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering

Delft Center for Systems and Control

2014-06-18

In this paper Linear Individual Pitch Control (LIPC) is applied to an experimental small-scale two-bladed wind turbine. LIPC is a recently introduced Individual Pitch Control (IPC) strategy specifically intended for two-bladed wind turbines. The LIPC approach is based on a linear coordinate transformation, with the special property that only two control loops are required to potentially reduce all periodic blade loads. In this study we apply LIPC to a control-oriented small-scale two-bladed wind turbine, equipped with, among others, two high-bandwidth servomotors to regulate the blade pitch angles and strain gauges to measure the blade moments. Experimental results are presented that indicate the effectiveness of LIPC.

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https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/524/1/012056

IOP Publishing

1742-6588

Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 524 (1), 2014; TORQUE 2014: The Science of Making Torque from Wind 2014, Copenhagen, Denmark, 18-20 June 2014

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