A FAST.Farm and MATLAB/Simulink interface for wind farm control design

Abstract Increasing the efficiency of wind farms is important for speeding up the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. Current wind farm control relies on maximization of power generation of individual turbines. However, research has demonstrated that plant-wide wind farm contro...

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Published inJournal of physics. Conference series Vol. 2626; no. 1; pp. 12069 - 12079
Main Authors Smits, Coen-Jan, Silva, Jean Gonzalez, Chabaud, Valentin, Ferrari, Riccardo
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Bristol IOP Publishing 01.10.2023
Subjects
Closed loops
Feedback control
Matlab
Optimization
Physics
Renewable energy sources
Wind power generation
Wind turbines
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Summary:Abstract Increasing the efficiency of wind farms is important for speeding up the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. Current wind farm control relies on maximization of power generation of individual turbines. However, research has demonstrated that plant-wide wind farm control could optimize the performance of a wind farm. Wind farm simulation tools are crucial in designing, testing, and validating wind farm controls. FAST.Farm is a recently developed multi-physics engineering tool for modeling wind farm performance by solving the aero-hydro-servoelastic dynamics of each individual turbine. The capabilities of FAST.Farm for control design purposes can be extended through a co-simulation with MATLAB/Simulink. Therefore, a MATLAB/Simulink interface with FAST.Farm has been developed. The creation and operation of this interface are explained in this paper. This interface supports developing and testing advanced closed-loop control at the wind turbine and wind farm levels.
ISSN:1742-6588
1742-6596
DOI:10.1088/1742-6596/2626/1/012069