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Wind Energy

reducing the cost of renewables by advanced control

More than 90 GW of new wind power was installed in 2020, which accounts for a 53% growth compared to 2019 (Global Wind Energy Council, 2021). Still, to meet the ambitious global plans for decarbonization, a growth of 180 GW per year would be required. This goal can be met by introducing larger turbines, especially in the offshore sector (Wiser et al., 2021). Such turbines will need to be lighter and more flexible, and this requires advanced control systems that can reduce structural loads. In particular, there is a need for optimal control schemes that can optimize the utilization of a wind turbine over its entire life cycle, taking into consideration power requirements from the grid, the accumulation of fatigue damage and the costs of maintenance, decomissioning or repowering at the end of the service life.

We are currently working on such control schemes as parts of our projects SUDOCO, TWAIN and AIMWIND. Our results included fault tolerant control schemes (Liu et al., 2021), load reduction control at wind turbine level (missing reference), improved wind speed estimation algorithms at rotor (Liu et al., 2022) and blade level (Pamososuryo et al., 2023), and controllers for dynamic power derating and load balancing at wind farm level (Gonzales-Silva et al., 2021).

Joint work with (mostly): Bart Wolleswinkel, Ivo Van Straalen, Alex Gallo, Yichao Liu, Jean Gonzales Silva, Zhixin Feng, Atindryo Pamososuryo, Joeri Frederik, Sebastiaan Mulders.

Publications

  1. WE
    Convex Economic Model Predictive Control for Blade Loads Mitigation on Wind Turbines
    Pamososuryo, Atindriyo, Liu, Yichao, Hovgaard, Tobias, Ferrari, Riccardo M.G., and Wingerden, Jan-Willem
    Wind Energy 2023
  2. RENENE
    Wind farm control for wake-loss compensation, thrust balancing and load-limiting of turbines
    Silva, Jean Gonzalez, Ferrari, Riccardo M.G., and Wingerden, Jan-Willem
    Renewable Energy 2023
  3. ENRG
    Enabling Co-Innovation for a Successful Digital Transformation in Wind Energy Using a New Digital Ecosystem and a Fault Detection Case Study
    Barber, Sarah, Lima, Luiz Andre Moyses, Sakagami, Yoshiaki, Quick, Julian, Latiffianti, Effi, Liu, Yichao, Ferrari, Riccardo M.G., Letzgus, Simon, Zhang, Xujie, and Hammer, Florian
    Energies 2022
  4. IEEE_LCSS
    The Proportional Integral Notch and Coleman Blade Effective Wind Speed Estimators and Their Similarities
    Liu, Yichao, Pamososuryo, Atindriyo Kusumo, Mulders, Sebastiaan P., Ferrari, Riccardo M.G., and Wingerden, Jan-Willem
    IEEE Control Systems Letters 2022
  5. IET_RPG
    Floating offshore wind turbine fault diagnosis via regularized dynamic canonical correlation and Fisher discriminant analysis
    Wu, Ping, Liu, Yichao, Ferrari, Riccardo M.G., and Wingerden, Jan-Willem
    IET Renewable Power Generation 2021
  6. IEEE_LCSS
    The Immersion and Invariance Wind Speed Estimator Revisited and New Results
    Liu, Yichao, Pamososuryo, Atindriyo Kusumo, Ferrari, Riccardo M.G., and Wingerden, Jan-Willem
    IEEE Control Systems Letters 2022
  7. WE
    Fault-Tolerant Individual Pitch Control of Floating Offshore Wind Turbines via Subspace Predictive Repetitive Control
    Liu, Yichao, Frederik, Joeri, Ferrari, Riccardo M.G., Wu, Ping, Li, Sunwei, and Wingerden, Jan-Willem
    Wind Energy 2021
  8. J_RENENE
    Fault diagnosis of the 10MW Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Benchmark: A mixed model and signal-based approach
    Liu, Yichao, Ferrari, Riccardo M.G., Wu, Ping, Jiang, Xiaoli, Li, Sunwei, and Wingerden, Jan-Willem
    Renewable Energy 2021
  9. WES
    Load Reduction for Wind Turbines: an Output Constrained, Subspace Predictive Repetitive Control Approach
    Liu, Yichao, Ferrari, Riccardo M.G., and Wingerden, Jan-Willem
    Wind Energy Science Discussions 2022
  10. JPCS
    A FAST. Farm and MATLAB/Simulink interface for wind farm control design
    Smits, Coen-Jan, Gonzales-Silva, Jean, Chabaud, Valentin, Ferrari, Riccardo M.G., and Wingerden, Jan-Willem
    In Journal of Physics: Conference Series 2023
  11. IFAC23
    UKF-based Wind Estimation and Sub-optimal Turbine Control under Waked Conditions
    Gonzales-Silva, Jean, Liu, Yichao, Ferrari, Riccardo M.G., and Wingerden, Jan-Willem
    In IFAC World Congress 2023
  12. AWEC
    Comparison of Two Data-driven Airborne Wind Energy Oriented Long-term Weather Forecast Methods
    Feng, Zhixin, Wan, Jia, Ompusunggu, Agusmian Partogi, and Ferrari, Riccardo M.G.
    2022
  13. CDC22
    An Economic Model Predictive Control Approach for Load Mitigation on Multiple Tower Locations of Wind Turbines
    Feng, Zhixin, Gallo, Alexander J., Liu, Yichao, Pamososuryo, Atindriyo Kusumo, Ferrari, Riccardo M.G., and Wingerden, Jan-Willem
    In Conference on Decision and Control 2022
  14. CDC22
    Convex Model Predictive Control for Down-regulation Strategies in Wind Turbines
    Gonzales-Silva, Jean, Ferrari, Riccardo M.G., and Wingerden, Jan-Willem
    In Conference on Decision and Control 2022
  15. RENEW22
    A control-oriented wind turbine dynamic simulation framework which resolves local atmospheric conditions
    Feng, Zhixin, Ferrari, Riccardo M.G., Wingerden, Jan-Willem, and Liu, Yichao
    In Trends in Renewable Energies Offshore: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Renewable Energies Offshore (RENEW 2022, Lisbon, Portugal, 8–10 November 2022) 2022
  16. ACC22
    The Proportional Integral Notch and Coleman Blade Effective Wind Speed Estimators and Their Similarities
    Liu, Yichao, Pamososuryo, Atindriyo Kusumo, Mulders, Sebastiaan P., Ferrari, Riccardo M.G., and Wingerden, Jan-Willem
    In American Control Conference 2022
  17. ACC22
    A Switching Thrust Tracking Controller for Load Constrained Wind Turbines
    Gonzales-Silva, Jean, Hoek, Daan, Mulders, Sebastiaan P., Ferrari, Riccardo M.G., and Wingerden, Jan-Willem
    In American Control Conference 2022
  18. ACC22
    Periodic Load Estimation of a Wind Turbine Tower using a Model Demodulation Transformation
    Pamososuryo, Atindriyo Kusumo, Mulders, Sebastiaan P., Ferrari, Riccardo M.G., and Wingerden, Jan-Willem
    In American Control Conference 2022
  19. TORQUE22
    Active power control of wind farms: an instantaneous approach on waked conditions
    Gonzales-Silva, Jean, Doekemeijer, Bart Matthijs, Ferrari, Riccardo M.G., and Wingerden, Jan-Willem
    In Science of Making Torque from Wind Conference 2022
  20. TORQUE22
    Individual pitch control by convex economic model predictive control for wind turbine side-side tower load alleviation
    Pamososuryo, Atindriyo Kusumo, Liu, Yichao, Hovgaard, Tobias Gybel, Ferrari, Riccardo M.G., and Wingerden, Jan-Willem
    In Science of Making Torque from Wind Conference 2022
  21. CDC21
    The Immersion and Invariance Wind Speed Estimator Revisited and New Results
    Liu, Yichao, Pamososuryo, Atindriyo Kusumo, Ferrari, Riccardo M.G., and Wingerden, Jan-Willem
    In Conference on Decision and Control 2021
  22. WESC21
    Wind turbine control using a WRF-based meteorological model: a case study on a 5MW benchmark
    Feng, Zhixin, Liu, Yichao, Ferrari, Riccardo M.G., and Wingerden, Jan-Willem
    In Wind Energy Science Conference 2021
  23. ECC21
    Blade Effective Wind Speed Estimation: A Subspace Predictive Repetitive Estimator Approach
    Liu, Yichao, Pamososuryo, Atindriyo Kusumo, Ferrari, Riccardo M.G., Hovgaard, Tobias Gybel, and Wingerden, Jan-Willem
    In European Control Conference 2021
  24. ECC21
    Active Power Control of Waked Wind Farms: Compensation of Turbine Saturation and Thrust Force Balance
    Gonzales-Silva, Jean, Doekemeijer, Bart Matthijs, Ferrari, Riccardo M.G., and Wingerden, Jan-Willem
    In European Control Conference 2021
  25. ACC21
    Periodic Load Rejection for Floating Offshore Wind Turbines Via Constrained Subspace Predictive Repetitive Control
    Liu, Yichao, Ferrari, Riccardo M.G., and Wingerden, Jan-Willem
    In American Control Conference 2021
  26. TORQUE20
    Fault Detection of the Mooring system in Floating Offshore Wind Turbines based on the Wave-excited Linear Model
    Liu, Yichao, Fontanella, Alessandro, Wu, Ping, Ferrari, Riccardo M.G., and Wingerden, Jan-Willem
    In Science of Making Torque from Wind Conference 2020
  27. IFAC20
    Fast Adaptive Fault Accommodation in Floating Offshore Wind Turbines via Model-Based Fault Diagnosis and Subspace Predictive Repetitive Control
    Liu, Yichao, Wu, Ping, Ferrari, Riccardo M.G., and Wingerden, Jan-Willem
    In IFAC World Congress 2020
  28. ACC20
    Adaptive fault accommodation of pitch actuator stuck type of fault in floating offshore wind turbines: a subspace predictive repetitive control approach
    Liu, Yichao, Frederik, Joeri, Fontanella, Alessandro, Ferrari, Riccardo M.G., and Wingerden, Jan-Willem
    In American Control Conference 2020

Additional References

  1. Global Wind Report 2021
    Global Wind Energy Council,
    2021
  2. Expert elicitation survey predicts 37% to 49% declines in wind energy costs by 2050
    Wiser, Ryan, Rand, Joseph, Seel, Joachim, Beiter, Philipp, Baker, Erin, Lantz, Eric, and Gilman, Patrick
    Nature Energy 2021