Blade Pitch Angle Control for Floating Offshore Wind Turbines by Model Predictive Control

Abstract

Wind energy technologies have evolved dramatically over the past years. In particular, floating offshore wind turbines have attracted interest. In the case of a floating concept, the platform motions induced by both the wind and wave conditions must be mitigated by an advanced control method. In this paper, we propose blade pitch angle control for floating offshore wind turbines using model predictive control (MPC) integrating wind disturbance preview to reduce the platform pitch fluctuations and to regulate the generator power.