Papers by Keyword: Pitch Control

Abstract: The use of wind power has been rising up rapidly due to its power potential and the improvement of technology. In order to extend the max capacity of power output, the size of wind turbine should grow simultaneously. Therefore, a cost effectiveness of wind power plant is needed to improve the performance. This paper aims at designing a novel hydraulic pitch actuator to implement pitch control effectively even if an impulsive wind peak appears. By developing a novel hydraulic pump control system, the creative design of hydraulic pump control system comprising a fixed displacement pump driven by a servo motor, two unsymmetrical hydraulic cylinders, and hydraulic circuits, could have an excellent response in operation. Furthermore, a feedback linearization controller was designed to compensate for the nonlinearity of hydraulic system and overcome the impulsive loadings from wind peaks. The turbine model was built through FAST released by NREL and the dynamic performance showed the excellent robustness and response with that proposed controller and mechanical design.

Abstract: To improve the ride comfort performance of electrical vehicle (EV) with in-wheel motor, the paper established a multi-body dynamic model of the vehicle, two road models and the suspension coordinate controller.The suspension coordinate, which can adjust suspension damper in real-time, was designed for the semi-active air suspension based fuzzy PID to control the suspension force, then the co-simulation were carried out under different conditions based on Adams and Matlab/Simulink. The results showed that the control method enhanced the ride comfort performance of EV with in-wheel motor significantly, especially the pitch performance.

Abstract: According to the analysis of control structures of the two typical control modes-pitch control and height control, the simplified control rules for the two special control systems are presented. Under the condition of enduring the real-time property and fidelity, the classical control theory is applied to study the control parameters selecting of the flight control system (FCS) based on PC modeling traits. The selecting process of control parameters of longitudinal control channel is analyzed and the simulation resources are simplified. The simulation model is achieved. The steps are summarized for the simulation modeling of longitudinal control channel of the flight control system, and the corresponding flow chart based on PC is also given.

Abstract: Due to the lack of fossil fuels, people are paying more and more attention to renewable energy. Wind energy is one of the important renewable energy. Unpredictability and volatility of the wind source make the output power unstable, so we need to control the active Power. This paper uses fuzzy control method, and the simulation results show that fuzzy control method mentioned in this paper is better than the conventional PI control for Wind power, the nonlinear system. Based on the analysis of pitch control theory and control process, we design fuzzy pitch controller and its model. We simulates gust wind speed imitates, wind turbine control and verifies the effects of the blur pitch control in a constant speed and constant frequency wind power generation system. According to the results of the simulation, we know the pitch controller of fuzzy logic has a better effect on the active control of the generator of the wind power generation system.

Abstract: Dramatic wind speed variations result in the fluctuations of output power in DFIG. This paper presents a pitch control to suppress DFIG Rotor-side active power fluctuations. Though pitch angle changes too quickly could result in generator power fluctuations, the pitch control adopts PID controller and an angle rate limiter to prevent rapid pitch angle changes. The pitch control strategy is simulated by Matlab simulation platform, and the results have shown the correctness and validity of the pitch control.

Abstract: The concept of pitch control has been implemented in the design of a small vertical-axis wind turbine. Benefits gained can be shown by the experimental and numerical results presented in this paper. As found, the method of variable pitch control outperforms the one of fixed pitch control. The present results show that the former can make remarkable improvement on the starting torque as well as the aerodynamic characteristics at low tip speed ratios.

Abstract: In this paper, we demonstrate the design and simulation of a baseline PID rotor collective pitch controller with a gain scheduling for WindPACT) operation. We use a FAST-Simulink model of the closed-loop system to describe simulating this controller.Through the simulation analysis and comparing the result, control effect with the control strategy of gain scheduling results in better power regulation. At the moment of wind speed make more close to the rated wind speed, the changes of pitch angle is more sensitive, and the output power is larger and more smoothly.

Abstract: A simulation methodology suitable for morphing wing aircraft is presented, accounting for the changes in both inertial and aerodynamic properties. The aerodynamics was generated with vortex lattice method and solved concurrently with 6DOF nonlinear extended equations of motion. Due to the wing morphing, there are 4 additional forces and moments exhibiting in the extended equations of motion. The simulation mythology was applied to M-wing morphing aircraft, and the longitudinal dynamic response was analyzed with the wing morphing symmetrically. The results show that the additional forces and moments influence the flight dynamic considerably

Abstract: Above rated wind speed, the wind turbine speed and output power are maintained near the rated values through the coordinative control of torque and pitch angle. Due to the non-linear behavior of the wind turbine, the traditional PID control is not effective in the pitch control. And accurate mathematical model of wind turbine is very difficult to get. In order to solve the problem, the fuzzy adaptive tuning PID control algorithm is proposed in the paper. About torque control strategy, constant torque control mode and constant power control mode are simulated respectively. Based on the analysis and comparison of the advantages and disadvantages of both modes, a mix control mode is proposed in order to give consideration to both torque and power. Simulation was carried out with the proposed torque control and pitch control strategy in MATLAB and GH Bladed software. The results proved that output power is optimized and the response of the wind turbine is good

Abstract: This paper firstly analyzed the theory of the MW wind turbine generator pitch control, and then based on the analysis, designed a servo drive system with PMSM motor-driven and double closed loop control consisted of inner speed loop and outer current loop. Finally, use MATLAB establishes the corresponding model to simulation test. Simulation results show that the servo control system has good dynamic, steady state performance and robustness.