A novel lift controller for a wind turbine blade section using an active flow control device: experimental results
Year: 2022
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: In this paper, a very recent adaptive version of super-twisting is applied to the control of the aerodynamic lift over wind turbine blades taking into account local disturbances of the air flow. The proposed control law acts as a model-free control strategy that is based on the definition of only two parameters. Thanks to this strategy, the tuning and modeling efforts are reduced: the first parameter is acting on the gain variation speed, whereas the second one is linked to the expected accuracy, thus allowing the control of unknown dynamics. The ability of the proposed control algorithm is discussed to track a lift reference for a wind turbine blade in presence of external perturbations. Experimental results globally illustrate the feasibility of such a control.
Institutions: École Centrale de Nantes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire des Sciences du Numérique de Nantes, Nantes Université, Laboratoire de Recherche Hydrodynamique, Energétique et Environnement Atmosphérique, Laboratoire Quartz, École Nationale Supérieure de l'Électronique et de ses Applications
Language: English
Subfield: Control and Systems Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: Agence Nationale de la Recherche
OpenAlex ID: W4297415513