Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Control of a wind turbine taking fatigue measure into account
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Application No.: US15574456Application Date: 2016-05-24
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Publication No.: US10683844B2Publication Date: 2020-06-16
- Inventor: Keld Hammerum , Tobias Gybel Hovgaard
- Applicant: VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S
- Applicant Address: DK Aarhus N
- Assignee: VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S
- Current Assignee: VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S
- Current Assignee Address: DK Aarhus N
- Agency: Patterson + Sheridan, LLP
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@6c6a66e6 com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@6eb4d7af
- International Application: PCT/DK2016/050143 WO 20160524
- International Announcement: WO2016/188532 WO 20161201
- Main IPC: F03D9/00
- IPC: F03D9/00 ; H02P9/04 ; F03D7/02 ; F03D7/04

Abstract:
The present invention relates to control of wind turbines where a fatigue load measure is taken into account. Control of a wind turbine is described where a control trajectory is calculated based on a fatigue load measure, the fatigue load measure being determined from a predicted operational trajectory. In embodiments the predicted operational trajectories are calculated by using a model predictive control (MPC) routine, and the fatigue load measure includes a rainflow count algorithm.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180142674A1 CONTROL OF A WIND TURBINE TAKING FATIGUE MEASURE INTO ACCOUNT Public/Granted day:2018-05-24
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