Abstract
The ‘Cyclops’ effect of the light detection and ranging (LiDAR) system means that the LiDAR system can only measure wind speed at one point in space at a certain moment. However, for the purposes of wind turbine control, considering the wind information at the rotor plane with time stamps can be more precise. The wind speed attenuates due to the induction zone; however, Taylor's frozen hypothesis is commonly used in the application of LiDAR for the rotor effective wind speed estimation. The wind turbine is controlled directly by LiDAR measured data with constant time delay, which weakens LiDAR's effectiveness. In this paper, a novel LiDAR data pre-processing method is demonstrated. The Medici induction zone model is further refined with initial wind speed and different measured distances for accurate estimation. Furthermore, it makes online variable time delay of LiDAR data computation possible with the solution of the separated differential equation. Finally, the novel method is fully verified through field test results. The results show that the initial wind speed affected the attenuation factor within 1.4 times rotor radius and the error between the experimental value and the theoretical value is within 0.1 m/s.
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