no code implementations • 22 Feb 2024 • Rogier Dinkla, Sebastiaan Mulders, Tom Oomen, Jan-Willem van Wingerden
Factors like improved data availability and increasing system complexity have sparked interest in data-driven predictive control (DDPC) methods like Data-enabled Predictive Control (DeePC).
no code implementations • 4 Sep 2023 • Atindriyo K. Pamososuryo, Sebastiaan P. Mulders, Riccardo Ferrari, Jan-Willem van Wingerden
The high-fidelity OpenFAST wind turbine software evaluates the proposed controller scheme, demonstrating effective reduction of the 1P periodic loading and the tower's natural frequency excitation in the side-side tower motion.
no code implementations • 29 Sep 2022 • Zhixin Feng, Alexander J. Gallo, Yichao Liu, Atindriyo K. Pamososuryo, Riccardo M. G. Ferrari, Jan-Willem van Wingerden
In this paper, we develop an Economic Model Predictive Control (eMPC) framework to address such needs.
no code implementations • 22 Sep 2022 • Jean Gonzalez Silva, Riccardo Ferrari, Jan-Willem van Wingerden
Although this balance is limited by the wind availability and grid demand, the quality of wind energy can be improved by introducing down-regulation strategies that make use of the kinetic energy of the turbine dynamics.
no code implementations • 12 Sep 2022 • Jan-Willem van Wingerden, Sebastiaan Mulders, Rogier Dinkla, Tom Oomen, Michel Verhaegen
Direct data-driven control has attracted substantial interest since it enables optimization-based control without the need for a parametric model.
1 code implementation • 24 Aug 2022 • Maarten J. van den Broek, Delphine De Tavernier, Benjamin Sanderse, Jan-Willem van Wingerden
The free-vortex wake model with gradient information shows potential for efficient optimisation and provides a promising way to further explore dynamic wind farm flow control.
no code implementations • 11 Apr 2022 • Jean Gonzalez Silva, Bart Matthijs Doekemeijer, Riccardo Ferrari, Jan-Willem van Wingerden
This paper presents a closed-loop controller for wind farms to provide active power control services using a high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics based wind plant simulator.
no code implementations • 11 Apr 2022 • Jean Gonzalez Silva, Daan van der Hoek, Sebastiaan Paul Mulders, Riccardo Ferrari, Jan-Willem van Wingerden
Based on the structural health condition of the tower, power de-rating strategies can be used to reduce structural loads at the cost of power losses. This paper introduces a novel closed-loop switching control architecture to constrain the thrust in individual turbines.
no code implementations • 19 Jan 2022 • Aemilius A W van Vondelen, Alexandros Iliopoulos, Sachin T Navalkar, Daan C van der Hoek, Jan-Willem van Wingerden
Operational Modal Analysis (OMA) provides essential insights into the structural dynamics of an Offshore Wind Turbine (OWT).
no code implementations • 1 Oct 2021 • Yichao Liu, Atindriyo K. Pamososuryo, Sebastiaan P. Mulders, Riccardo M. G. Ferrari, Jan-Willem van Wingerden
This letter introduces two novel BEWS estimator approaches: A Proportional Integral Notch (PIN) estimator based on individual blade load measurements, and a Coleman estimator targeting the estimation in the non-rotating frame.
no code implementations • 21 Apr 2021 • Steffen Raach, Bart Doekemeijer, Sjoerd Boersma, Jan-Willem van Wingerden, Po Wen Cheng
The FLORIS wake model, a control-oriented steady-state wake model is used to calculate optimal yaw angles for a given wind farm layout and atmospheric condition.
no code implementations • 15 Apr 2021 • Yichao Liu, Atindriyo Kusumo Pamososuryo, Riccardo M. G. Ferrari, Jan-Willem van Wingerden
In this letter, we illustrate that the circle criterion can be used as an alternative method to prove the global convergence of the I\&I estimator.
no code implementations • 9 Apr 2021 • Yichao Liu, Riccardo M. G. Ferrari, Jan-Willem van Wingerden
Individual Pitch Control (IPC) is an effective control strategy to mitigate the blade loads on large-scale wind turbines.
no code implementations • 8 Apr 2021 • Jean Gonzalez Silva, Bart Doekemeijer, Riccardo Ferrari, Jan-Willem van Wingerden
For compensation purposes, the dynamics of power tracking in the wind turbines is approximated as a pure time-delay process, and the thrust force balance design is based on an identified linear model of the turbines.
no code implementations • 7 Apr 2021 • Yichao Liu, Atindriyo Kusumo Pamososuryo, Riccardo Ferrari, Tobias Gybel Hovgaard, Jan-Willem van Wingerden
Modern wind turbine control algorithms typically utilize rotor effective wind speed measured from an anemometer on the turbine's nacelle.
no code implementations • 30 Mar 2020 • Leif Erik Andersson, Bart Doekemeijer, Daan van der Hoek, Jan-Willem van Wingerden, Lars Imsland
In the case study the modifier adaptation approach is compared with the Bayesian optimization approach.
no code implementations • 1 Apr 2016 • Hildo Bijl, Thomas B. Schön, Jan-Willem van Wingerden, Michel Verhaegen
This recommendation is usually selected by optimizing a given acquisition function.
1 code implementation • 29 Jan 2016 • Hildo Bijl, Thomas B. Schön, Jan-Willem van Wingerden, Michel Verhaegen
There has been a growing interest in using non-parametric regression methods like Gaussian Process (GP) regression for system identification.