Print Email Facebook Twitter Iterative feedback tuning of wind turbine controllers Title Iterative feedback tuning of wind turbine controllers Author van Solingen, E. (TU Delft Team Raf Van de Plas) Mulders, S.P. (TU Delft Team Jan-Willem van Wingerden) van Wingerden, J.W. (TU Delft Team Jan-Willem van Wingerden) Date 2017 Abstract Traditionally, wind turbine controllers are designed using first principles or linearized or identified models. The aim of this paper is to show that with an automated, online, and model-free tuning strategy, wind turbine control performance can be significantly increased. For this purpose, iterative feedback tuning (IFT) is applied to two different turbine controllers: drivetrain damping and collective pitch control. The results, obtained by high-fidelity simulations using the NREL 5MW wind turbine, indicate significant performance improvements over baseline controllers, which were designed using classical loop-shaping techniques. It is concluded that iterative feedback tuning of turbine controllers has the potential to become a valuable tool to improve wind turbine performance. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:b590222e-4c86-47bb-877c-5a56308a68b3 DOI https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2-153-2017 Source Wind Energy Science, 2, 153-173 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2017 E. van Solingen, S.P. Mulders, J.W. van Wingerden Files PDF wes_2_153_2017.pdf 4.87 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:b590222e-4c86-47bb-877c-5a56308a68b3/datastream/OBJ/view