Abstract:
A coordinated torque-pitch control strategy based on improved model free adaptive control was proposed to overcome the difficulties in modeling floating offshore wind turbines and the serious fatigue damage caused by frequent pitch action. This strategy didn’t rely on the mathematical model of the floating offshore wind turbine. The model free adaptive control method was improved by integrating the iterative learning control strategy; a multi input and multi output controller with the generator torque and pitch angle as control variables was designed for coordinated control; allow the wind turbine to be used as kinetic energy buffer under the non-zero pitch angle, and the amount of pitch action was reduced while the output power was smoothed. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the designed strategy, comparative experiments were conducted with methods such as gain scheduling PI control in various wind scenarios. Results show that the proposed control strategy enables the floating offshore wind turbine to meet the stability of power generation while reducing the pitch motion of the floating platform, which can significantly reduce the fatigue damage of the floating offshore wind turbine.