Review of control technologies for floating offshore wind turbines

J López-Queija, E Robles, J Jugo… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Floating offshore wind growth places the industry development close to commercial scale.
However, the harsh environment with strong winds, waves, and currents, together with the …

State-of-the-art in integrated prognostics and health management control for utility-scale wind turbines

MH Do, D Söffker - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Wind energy takes an important role in the transformation of the global energy system
towards clean and sustainable sources. The main development of wind energy technology …

Consideration of lifetime and fatigue load in wind turbine control

JG Njiri, N Beganovic, MH Do, D Söffker - Renewable energy, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a novel scheme for extending lifetime of a wind energy conversion
system (WECS) by integrating an online damage evaluation model into a control strategy for …

Adaptive pitch control of wind turbine for load mitigation under structural uncertainties

Y Yuan, J Tang - Renewable Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
In this research, a new adaptive control strategy is formulated for the pitch control of wind
turbine that may suffer from reduced life owing to extreme loads and fatigue when operated …

Observer-based robust fault predictive control for wind turbine time-delay systems with sensor and actuator faults

S Bououden, F Allouani, A Abboudi, M Chadli… - Energies, 2023 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a novel observer-based robust fault predictive control (OBRFPC)
approach for a wind turbine time-delay system subject to constraints, actuator/sensor faults …

Wind turbines dynamics loads alleviation: Overview of the active controls and the corresponding strategies

A El Yaakoubi, A Bouzem, R El Alami, N Chaibi… - Ocean …, 2023 - Elsevier
Structural loads vibration is a critical problem in WTs (wind turbines) due to many reasons
such as the complicated dynamics, structural coupling and diversity of the driving sources …

A review of failure prognostics for predictive maintenance of offshore wind turbines

W Zhang, J Vatn, A Rasheed - Journal of Physics: Conference …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Offshore wind turbines (OWTs) are important facilities for wind power generation because of
their low land use and high electricity output. However, the harsh environment and remote …

[HTML][HTML] A survey of models of degradation for control applications

M Zagorowska, O Wu, JR Ottewill, M Reble… - Annual Reviews in …, 2020 - Elsevier
The analysis of equipment degradation has traditionally developed in two main directions.
One approach, of great interest for control system design, has been to consider that …

A Markovian approach for modelling the effects of maintenance on downtime and failure risk of wind turbine components

CI Ossai, B Boswell, IJ Davies - Renewable energy, 2016 - Elsevier
For effective and efficient performance of wind turbines, components and systems should
perform at a low risk with minimal downtime. To establish the impacts of wind turbine …

A simple nonlinear observer for state and unknown input estimation: DC motor applications

C Martínez-García, C Astorga-Zaragoza… - … on Circuits and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The contribution of this brief is to propose a method based on a simple nonlinear observer
with an easy-to-compute observer gain, in order to achieve both state and unknown input …