《A novel trajectorybased online controller design approach to fault accommodation in NREL’s 5MW wind turbine systems》.pdfVIP

Control Theory Tech, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 122–131, May 2014 Control Theory and Technology /journal/11768 A novel trajectory-based online controller design approach to fault accommodation in NREL’s 5MW wind turbine systems 1† 2 2 ´ Tushar JAIN , Joseph J. YAME , Dominique SAUTER 1.Aalto University School of Chemical Technology, P. O. Box 16100, FI-00076 Aalto, Finland; ´ ` 2.Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy, Universite de Lorraine, 54506 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France Received 18 October 2012; revised 14 August 2013; accepted 26 August 2013 Abstract: This paper presents a real-time mechanism to tolerate faults occurring in a wind turbine (WT) system. This system is composed of a FAST coded simulator designed by the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory. The demonstrated mechanism lies under the taxonomy of active fault-tolerant control (FTC) systems, namely online redesign based approach. In the proposed approach, we do not use any a priori information about the model of the turbine in real-time. In fact, we use online measurements generated by the WT. Based on the given control specifications, and the observed measurement an occurred fault is accommodated by reconfiguring the online controller such that the WT generates rated power even under faulty conditions. Second, no explicit fault diagnosis (FD) module is used in this approach. As a result, issues of model uncertainty, false alarms, etc.