Strong stabilization of a wind turbine tower model

Author

Zhao, Xiaowei ; Weiss, George

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Imperial Coll. London, London, UK

fYear

2009

fDate

15-18 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

5526

Lastpage

5531

Abstract

We derive a model for a wind turbine tower in the plane of the turbine blades, that comprises a non-uniform SCOLE system and a two-mass drive-train model (with gearbox). The input of this model is the electric torque created by the electrical generator. We show the impedance passivity and well-posedness of this model in the natural state space. We also prove that generically, this system can be strongly stabilized by feedback using information about the angular velocity of the nacelle and the angular velocity of the generator rotor.

Keywords

angular velocity control; feedback; stability; torque control; vibration control; wind turbines; NASA Spacecraft Control Laboratory Experiment; angular velocity; electric torque; electrical generator; feedback; generator rotor; impedance passivity; nacelle; nonuniform SCOLE system; stabilization; two-mass drive-train model; wind turbine tower model; Angular velocity; Blades; Feedback; Generators; Impedance; Poles and towers; Rotors; State-space methods; Torque; Wind turbines;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Decision and Control, 2009 held jointly with the 2009 28th Chinese Control Conference. CDC/CCC 2009. Proceedings of the 48th IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

ISSN

0191-2216

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3871-6

Electronic_ISBN

0191-2216

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CDC.2009.5400273

Filename

5400273