Fault Diagnosis and Sustainable Control of Wind Turbines: Robust Data-Driven and Model-Based Strategies

In order to improve the safety, the reliability, and the efficiency of wind turbine systems, thus avoiding expensive unplanned maintenance, the accommodation of faults in their early occurrence is fundamental. Therefore, the main contribution of Fault Diagnosis and Sustainable Control of Wind Turbines: Robust data-driven and model-based strategies consists of the development of reliable and robust fault diagnosis and fault tolerant (the so-called 'sustainable') control schemes by means of data-driven and model-based approaches. In particular, these strategies are proposed here since they are able to cope with unknown nonlinear systems and to manage noisy measurements. These aspects of the book followed by the simpler solutions relying on data-driven and model-based methodologies represent the key point when on-line implementations are considered of the proposed schemes. To highlight the potential of the proposed methods in real applications, Hardware-In-the-Loop test facilities representing realistic wind turbine systems are considered to analyze the digital implementation of the designed solutions. The achieved results show that the developed schemes are able to maintain the desired performances, thus validating their reliability and viability also in real-time implementations. The book targets both professional engineers working in industry and researchers in academic and scientific institutions. In this way, different groups of readers ranging from industrial engineers wishing to gain insight into the applications potential of new fault diagnosis and sustainable control methods, to the academic control community looking for new problems to tackle will find much to learn from this work. Provides the wind turbine models with different complexity as well as the solutions proposed and developed by the authorsIt addresses in detail the design, the development and realistic implementation of fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control strategies for wind turbine systemsIt addresses the development of sustainable control solutions that in general do not require the introduction of further or redundant measurementsIt proposes active fault tolerant (the so-called sustainable) solutions that are able to maintain the wind turbine working conditions with gracefully degraded performance before the required maintenance can occurPresents full coverage of the diagnosis and fault tolerant control problem, starting from the modelling and identification and finalizing with diagnosis and fault tolerant control approachesProvides MATLAB and Simulink codes for the solutions proposed INDICE: 1. Introduction2. System and Fault Modelling3. Data-Driven Modelling and Identification4. Fault Diagnosis and Fault Tolerant Control Schemes5. Nonlinear Geometric Approach for Fault Diagnosis6. Simulations, Experiments and Results7. Conclusions

• ISBN: 978-0-12-812984-5
• Editorial: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 200
• Fecha Publicación: 01/01/2018
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés