System modeling and instability control of wind turbine blade based on hydraulic pitch system and radial basic function neural network proportional–integral

Abstract

System modeling and aeroservoelastic control for divergent instability of stall-induced composite wind turbine blade modeled as thin-walled symmetric layup beam analysis have been investigated based on hydraulic pitch system and radial basic function neural network control. The blade is modeled as single-cell thin-walled beam structure with the circumferentially asymmetric stiffness design, exhibiting flap/lead-lag bending coupling deformation. The stall flutter and aeroservoelastic control of composite blade are investigated based on dynamic stall Beddoes–Leishman aerodynamic model and radial basic function neural network proportional–integral–derivative controller, with pitch actuator performed by hydraulic system. The system motion equations consist of the aeroelastic equations and the six-order pitch equation. The nonlinear aeroelastic responses, including both flap/lead-lag responses and pitch angle responses under different parameters, are solved by Galerkin method and the nonlinear time integration scheme with nonlinear residual analysis. To verify the effectiveness of the control scheme and realize visualized display of large thin-walled blade in the laboratory, experimental platform based on hardware-in-the-loop simulation is built to realize real-time control and virtual simulation. The platform structure consists of PLC hardware, monitoring interface in configuration software, and simulation environment that is connected by the OPC server with PLC system. The platform lays the foundation for vibrational behavior research on visualization of large wind turbine blade under divergent stall situation and verifies the real-time feasibility of the control algorithm proposed.

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Flap/lead-lag bending coupling aeroservoelastic control divergent instability hydraulic pitch system radial basic function neural network hardware-in-the-loop simulation

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System modeling and instability control of wind turbine blade based on hydraulic pitch system and radial basic function neural network proportional–integral–derivative controller

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