Active fault tolerant control for pitch actuators failures tested in a hardware-in-the-loop simulation for wind turbine controllers

Author

Vidal, Yolanda ; Rodellar, Jose ; Acho, Leonardo ; Tutiven, Christian

Author_Institution

Control Dynamics & Applic. Res. Group, Univ. Politec. de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

fYear

2015

fDate

16-19 June 2015

Firstpage

190

Lastpage

196

Abstract

The number and complexity of control systems in wind turbines (WT) is expanding rapidly, and their design can be the difference between an immensely profitable system or a damaged system. Designing a robust control system requires to test the control algorithms in the actual controller hardware. However, WT are large and expensive, thus we would like to perform this test virtually, without using prototypes of the WT.

Keywords

actuators; aerodynamics; compensation; control system synthesis; discrete time systems; fault diagnosis; fault tolerant control; microcontrollers; public domain software; robust control; wind turbines; FAST simulator; FD scheme; FD technique; FTC; FTC scheme; HiL testbed; USB; WT controllers; active fault tolerant control; actuator fault reconstruction; control inputs; controller hardware; discrete-time controller design; disturbance compensator; fatigue-aerodynamics-structures-and-turbulence simulator; fault diagnosis; fault operation; fault tolerant control; fault-free behavior; full-load region; hardware-in-the-loop simulation; hardware-in-the-loop testbed; normal operation; onshore turbine; open hardware Arduino board; open-source National Renewable Energy Laboratory WT simulator; pitch actuator failures; robust control system design; virtual WT; wind turbine controller design; Actuators; Generators; Hardware; Mathematical model; Torque; Wind turbines; FAST; Hardware-in-the-Loop; discrete-time; disturbance compensator; fault diagnosis; fault-tolerant-control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Control and Automation (MED), 2015 23th Mediterranean Conference on

Conference_Location

Torremolinos

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MED.2015.7158749

Filename

7158749