System identification for the Clipper Liberty C96 wind turbine
2014-06
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System identification for the Clipper Liberty C96 wind turbine
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System identification techniques are powerful tools that help improve modeling capabilities of real world dynamic systems. These techniques are well established and have been successfully used on countless systems in many areas. However, wind turbines provide a unique challenge for system identification because of the difficulty in measuring its primary input: wind. This thesis first motivates the problem by demonstrating the challenges with wind turbine system identification using both simulations and real data. It then suggests techniques toward successfully identifying a dynamic wind turbine model including the notion of an effective wind speed and how it might be measured. Various levels of simulation complexity are explored for insights into calculating an effective wind speed. In addition, measurements taken from the University of Minnesota's Clipper Liberty C96 research wind turbine are used for a preliminary investigation into the effective wind speed calculation and system identification of a real world wind turbine.
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University of Minnesota M.S. thesis. June 2014. Major: Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics. Advisor: Peter J. Seiler. 1 computer file (PDF); viii, 37 pages, appendix A.
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Showers, Daniel. (2014). System identification for the Clipper Liberty C96 wind turbine. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/169922.
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