Wind farm control technologies: from classical control to reinforcement learning

H Dong, J Xie, X Zhao - Progress in Energy, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Wind power plays a vital role in the global effort towards net zero. A recent figure shows that
93GW new wind capacity was installed worldwide in 2020, leading to a 53% year-on-year …

[HTML][HTML] Reinforcement learning for wind-farm flow control: Current state and future actions

M Abkar, N Zehtabiyan-Rezaie, A Iosifidis - Theoretical and Applied …, 2023 - Elsevier
Wind-farm flow control stands at the forefront of grand challenges in wind-energy science.
The central issue is that current algorithms are based on simplified models and, thus, fall …

[HTML][HTML] Data-driven torque and pitch control of wind turbines via reinforcement learning

J Xie, H Dong, X Zhao - Renewable Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper addresses the torque and pitch control problems of wind turbines. The main
contribution of this work is the development of an innovative reinforcement learning (RL) …

Decentralized yaw optimization for maximizing wind farm production based on deep reinforcement learning

Z Deng, C Xu, X Han, Z Cheng, F Xue - Energy Conversion and …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study describes a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) based decentralized yaw
optimization method to maximize the power production of wind farms. Specifically, we apply …

Reinforcement learning in wind energy-a review

VL Narayanan - International Journal of Green Energy, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Today's environmental concerns, particularly those related to global warming, have sparked
a drive for the usage of renewable energy sources. One of the most significant sources of …

Review on the application of artificial intelligence methods in the control and design of offshore wind power systems

D Song, G Shen, C Huang, Q Huang, J Yang… - Journal of marine …, 2024 - mdpi.com
As global energy crises and climate change intensify, offshore wind energy, as a renewable
energy source, is given more attention globally. The wind power generation system is …

Reward adaptive wind power tracking control based on deep deterministic policy gradient

P Chen, D Han - Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Wind power efficiency is an essential factor affecting wind power development, and efficient
wind power control methods are the key to improving wind power efficiency. Previous wind …

Advanced deep-reinforcement-learning methods for flow control: group-invariant and positional-encoding networks improve learning speed and quality

J Jeon, J Rabault, J Vasanth, F Alcántara-Ávila… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Flow control is key to maximize energy efficiency in a wide range of applications. However,
traditional flow-control methods face significant challenges in addressing non-linear systems …

A multiagent reinforcement learning approach for wind farm frequency control

Y Liang, X Zhao, L Sun - IEEE Transactions on Industrial …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As wind turbines (WTs) become more prevalent, there is an increasing interest in actively
controlling their power output to participate in the frequency regulation for the power grid …

Collective large-scale wind farm multivariate power output control based on hierarchical communication multi-agent proximal policy optimization

Y Zhang, X Chen, S Gong, J Chen - Renewable Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Wind power is becoming an increasingly vital source of renewable energy worldwide.
However, controlling power generation in wind farms faces significant challenges due to the …