Wind and Wave-Induced Vibration Reduction Control for Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Using Delayed Signals

Abstract

Active vibration control is a critical issue of the wind turbine in the field of marine energy. First, based on a three-degree-of-freedom wind turbine, a state space model subject to wind and wave loads is obtained. Then, a delayed state feedback control scheme is illustrated to reduce the vibration of platform pitch angle and tower top foreaft displacement, where the control channel includes time-delay state signals. The designed controller’s existence conditions are investigated. The simulation results show that the delayed feedback H∞ controller can significantly suppress wind- and wave-induced vibration of the wind turbine. Furthermore, it presents potential advantages over the delay-free feedback H∞ controller and the classic linear quadratic regulator in two aspects: vibration control performance and control cost.