Application of Model Reference Adaptive PI Control to FTCC of a Wind Farm. Issue 24 (2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Badihi, Hamed; Jadidi, Saeedreza; Zhang, Youmin
• Is Part Of: IFAC-PapersOnLine. Volume 51:Issue 24(2018)
• Page Start: 280
• Page End: 285
• Publication Date: 2018
• Subjects: Fault-Tolerant Cooperative Control (FTCC) -- Adaptive Proportional-Integral (PI) Control -- Wind Turbines -- Wind Farms; Automatic control -- Periodicals; 629.805
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2018.09.589
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2405-8963

Abstract

Abstract: High reliability and availability are crucial for cost-effective operation of any wind farm. In this regard, effective schemes for fault detection, diagnosis and accommodation need to be developed to improve the reliability and availability of wind turbines and consequently wind farms (groups of wind turbines). To address this issue, this paper employs an adaptive proportional-integral (PI) control approach in a cooperative framework that is oriented to the design and development of a novel fault-tolerant cooperative control (FTCC) scheme in a wind farm. Applied to a wind farm, this scheme handles decreased power generation faults that may be caused by icing or debris build-up on the blades over time. Different simulations on a high-fidelity offshore wind farm benchmark show the effectiveness and satisfactory performance of the proposed scheme in the presence of wind turbulences, measurement noises and realistic fault scenarios.