A New Pitch Angle Control Method of Wind Turbine Generators Based on Feedforward Wind Speed Information

Abstract

In this work, a new strategy to control the pitch angle of wind turbine generator is proposed. The strategy is based on designing an intelligent control system capable of maintaining a stable minimum fluctuating power generation. This can be achieved by providing the wind speed information to the controller in advance and hence allowing the controller to take the optimum action in controlling the blade pitch angle. A model based optimizer uses Model Predictive Control (MPC) technique to predict the wind turbine generator future behaviour and select the optimal control actions assisted by the wind speed information while satisfying the power generation constraints. The simulation results show that a significant improvement can be made using the proposed control method.