Wind Turbine Pitch Control First Approach Based on Reinforcement Learning

  1. J. Enrique Sierra-García 1
  2. Matilde Santos 2
  1. 1 Universidad de Burgos
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    Universidad de Burgos

    Burgos, España

    ROR https://ror.org/049da5t36

  2. 2 Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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    Universidad Complutense de Madrid

    Madrid, España

    ROR 02p0gd045

Libro:
Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning – IDEAL 2020. 21st International Conference: Guimarães, Portugal; November 4–6, 2020. Proceedings
  1. Cesar Analide (ed. lit.)
  2. Paulo Novais (ed. lit.)
  3. David Camacho (ed. lit.)
  4. Hujun Yin (ed. lit.)

Editorial: Springer International Publishing AG

ISBN: 978-3-030-62362-3 978-3-030-62361-6 978-3-030-62364-7 978-3-030-62365-4

Año de publicación: 2020

Título del volumen: Part II

Volumen: 2

Páginas: 260-268

Congreso: Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning – IDEAL (21. 2020. Guimarães)

Tipo: Aportación congreso

Resumen

The control strategy defined for a wind turbine (WT) aims to achieve the highest energy efficiency and at the same time to ensure safe operation under all wind conditions. The goal of the pitch control of a WT is to stabilize the output power around its nominal (rated) value by means of the position of the rotor blades with respect to the wind. In this work, a pitch control strategy based on reinforcement learning (RL) is proposed. The control system consists of a state estimator, a reward mechanism, a policy table and policy update algorithm. Different reward strategies and policy update algorithms for the RL controller have been tested and compared with a PID regulator. The proposed controller stabilizes the output power of the wind turbine around the rated power more accurately and with smaller overshoot than the traditional one.