Prognostic techniques applied to maintenance of wind turbines: a concise and specific review

GNP Leite, AM Araújo, PAC Rosas - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2018 - Elsevier
Wind turbine installation is growing consistently and fast. Wind turbines are getting bigger in
size and power, what incurs that a simple unit breakdown causes large energy losses. They …

Data-driven design of robust fault detection system for wind turbines

S Yin, G Wang, HR Karimi - Mechatronics, 2014 - Elsevier
In this paper, a robust data-driven fault detection approach is proposed with application to a
wind turbine benchmark. The main challenges of the wind turbine fault detection lie in its …

Load monitoring for active control of wind turbines

A Cooperman, M Martinez - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
This review article examines the range of sensors that have been proposed for monitoring
wind turbine blade loads for the purpose of active load control over the past decade. Wind …

Estimation of rotor effective wind speed: A comparison

MN Soltani, T Knudsen, M Svenstrup… - … on Control Systems …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modern wind turbine controllers use wind speed information to improve power production
and reduce loads on the turbine components. The turbine top wind speed measurement is …

Use of SCADA data for failure detection in wind turbines

K Kim, G Parthasarathy, O Uluyol… - Energy …, 2011 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
High operations and maintenance costs for wind turbines reduce their overall cost
effectiveness. One of the biggest drivers of maintenance cost is unscheduled maintenance …

Wind turbine fault detection and fault tolerant control-an enhanced benchmark challenge

PF Odgaard, KE Johnson - 2013 American Control Conference, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wind turbines are increasingly growing larger, becoming more complex, and being located
in more remote locations, especially offshore. Interest in advanced controllers for normal …

Uncertainty estimator-based dual layer adaptive fault-tolerant control for wind turbines

M Mazare, M Taghizadeh - Renewable Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Under the detrimental effects of sensor and actuator faults, the blade pitch system is found to
be the least reliable subsystem. Therefore, to apprehend required level of reliability and …

Dynamic response analysis of wind turbines under blade pitch system fault, grid loss, and shutdown events

Z Jiang, M Karimirad, T Moan - Wind Energy, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
This study focuses on the dynamic responses of land‐based and floating wind turbines
under blade pitch system fault and emergency shutdown conditions. The NREL 5 MW …

Fault estimation and fault‐tolerant control of the FAST NREL 5‐MW reference wind turbine using a proportional multi‐integral observer

P Kühne, F Pöschke, H Schulte - International Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
A proportional multi‐integral (PMI) observer scheme is used to reconstruct actuator and
sensor faults in large‐scale wind turbines. For the nonlinear full‐load region, a PMI observer …

Active sensor fault tolerant output feedback tracking control for wind turbine systems via T–S model

MS Shaker, RJ Patton - Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper presents a new approach to active sensor fault tolerant tracking control (FTTC)
for offshore wind turbine (OWT) described via Takagi–Sugeno (T–S) multiple models. The …