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 …

Floating offshore wind turbine aerodynamics: Trends and future challenges

D Micallef, A Rezaeiha - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Offshore wind turbines present novel challenges to the field of rotor aerodynamics because
of complex behaviours associated with six degrees of freedom motions of the platform. The …

A synthesis of feasible control methods for floating offshore wind turbine system dynamics

KA Shah, F Meng, Y Li, R Nagamune, Y Zhou… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
During the past decade, the development of offshore wind energy has transitioned from near
shore with shallow water to offshore middle-depth water regions. Consequently, the energy …

Stabilization of power output and platform motion of a floating offshore wind turbine-generator system using model predictive control based on previewed disturbances

T Wakui, A Nagamura, R Yokoyama - Renewable Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Model predictive control of a floating offshore wind turbine-generator system, in
which wave height as well as inflow wind speed is regarded as the previewed disturbances …

Individual/collective blade pitch control of floating wind turbine based on adaptive second order sliding mode

C Zhang, F Plestan - Ocean Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
A new control strategy based on adaptive second order sliding mode approach is applied to
a floating wind turbine system in the above rated region. This adaptive controller is well …

Data-driven predictive control for floating offshore wind turbines based on deep learning and multi-objective optimization

Y Zhang, X Yang, S Liu - Ocean engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
In order to deal with the problems of complicated modeling and the conflicts of control
objectives in the control of floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs), a multi-objective …

Wind field reconstruction from nacelle-mounted lidar short-range measurements

A Borraccino, D Schlipf, F Haizmann… - Wind Energy …, 2017 - wes.copernicus.org
Profiling nacelle lidars probe the wind at several heights and several distances upstream of
the rotor. The development of such lidar systems is relatively recent, and it is still unclear …

Control design methods for floating wind turbines for optimal disturbance rejection

F Lemmer, D Schlipf, PW Cheng - Journal of Physics: Conference …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
An analysis of the floating wind turbine as a multi-input-multi-output system investigating the
effect of the control inputs on the system outputs is shown. These effects are compared to the …

Sink or swim: A tutorial on the control of floating wind turbines

D Stockhouse, M Phadnis, A Henry… - 2023 American …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Within the rapidly growing wind energy sector, floating offshore wind turbines are expected
to be the fastest growing portion. This is largely driven by the immense offshore wind …

Adaptive super-twisting control of floating wind turbines with collective blade pitch control

C Zhang, SV Gutierrez, F Plestan, J de León-Morales - IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper proposes an adaptive super-twisting controller for floating wind turbine based on
collective blade pitch control. This adaptive second order sliding mode control scheme …