Multiobjective QFT control as enabler for wind turbines with soft-soft towers

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2025-03-06

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Wiley
Acceso abierto / Sarbide irekia
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Versión publicada / Argitaratu den bertsioa

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Wind energy tendency towards larger rotors and higher hub heights reach a limit when wind turbine pitch controller bandwidth is constrained by the first tower fore-aft bending moment. While most manufacturers try to find a workaround with alternative nonstandard tower designs, this paper presents a control solution based on quantitative feedback theory (QFT) that provides effective disturbance rejection while maintaining cost-effective conventional tower design for very high hub heights. Frequency domain specifications on measured and nonmeasured variables provide the control designer the insight to make the best use of the available feedback. The new control design procedure is applied to a realistic wind turbine example of 180-m hub height, showing the technical viability of the solution and a profitable business case.

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QFT, Robust control, Soft-soft tower, Wind turbine

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Ingeniería / Ingeniaritza

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Arellano, J., Elso, J. (2025) Multiobjective QFT control as enabler for wind turbines with soft-soft towers. Wind Energy, 28(4), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1002/we.70008.

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© 2025 The Author(s). Wind Energy published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the originalwork is properly cited, the use is non- commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.

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