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A Review of Floating Wind Turbine Controllers

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Handbook of Wind Power Systems

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A review of the most important contributions made towards designing and testing controllers for floating wind turbines is presented in this chapter. These controllers range in complexity, description detail, simulation results and testing styles, and floating platform structure. Furthermore, they have not yet been compared against each other quantitatively using the same simulation conditions. However, the attributes of each control approach documented in the literature are listed in this chapter. Several approaches that deal with the reduction of platform pitch damping are discussed such as the use of individual blade pitching and tuned mass dampers.

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Notes

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    The OC3 project started in 2005 and the last phase, phase IV, was finished and results published in 2010.

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    Fatigue DELs are used as a metric to replace the stochastic loads on a component by a periodic load with a calculated magnitude at a known frequency.

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Namik, H., Stol, K. (2013). A Review of Floating Wind Turbine Controllers. In: Pardalos, P., Rebennack, S., Pereira, M., Iliadis, N., Pappu, V. (eds) Handbook of Wind Power Systems. Energy Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41080-2_13

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