Print Email Facebook Twitter Assessing the Severity of Wind Gusts with Lidar Title Assessing the Severity of Wind Gusts with Lidar Author Bos, R. (TU Delft Wind Energy) Giyanani, A.H. (TU Delft Wind Energy) Bierbooms, W.A.A.M. (TU Delft Wind Energy) Date 2016 Abstract Lidars have gained a lot of popularity in the field of wind energy, partly because of their potential to be used for wind turbine control. By scanning the oncoming wind field, any threats such as gusts can be detected early and high loads can be avoided by taking preventive actions. Unfortunately, lidars suffer from some inherent weaknesses that hinder measuring gusts; e.g., the averaging of high-frequency fluctuations and only measuring along the line of sight). This paper proposes a method to construct a useful signal from a lidar by fitting a homogeneous Gaussian velocity field to a set of scattered measurements. The output signal, an along-wind force, acts as a measure for the damaging potential of an oncoming gust and is shown to agree with the rotor-effective wind speed (a similar control input, but derived directly from the wind turbine’s shaft torque). Low data availability and the disadvantage of not knowing the velocity between the lidar beams is translated into uncertainty and integrated in the output signal. This allows a designer to establish a control strategy based on risk, with the ultimate goal to reduce the extreme loads during operation. Subject controllidarwind energywind gustsOA-Fund TU Delft To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:edd3bb35-0b53-4ba0-99d5-23bee7e637c9 DOI https://doi.org/10.3390/rs8090758 ISSN 2072-4292 Source Remote Sensing, 8 (9) Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2016 R. Bos, A.H. Giyanani, W.A.A.M. Bierbooms Files PDF remotesensing_08_00758.pdf 5.84 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:edd3bb35-0b53-4ba0-99d5-23bee7e637c9/datastream/OBJ/view