Dynamic Co-Simulation Analysis and Control of an IEA 15 MW Offshore Floating Semi-Submersible Wind Turbine under Taiwan Offshore-Wind-Farm Conditions of Wind and Wave

Abstract

This study aims to develop dynamic co-simulation and control for analyzing the IEA 15 MW semi-submersible floating wind turbine under Taiwan offshore-wind-farm conditions of wind and wave. The IEA 15 MW wind turbine is mounted on a UMaine VolturnUS-S reference platform with a mooring system designed for a water depth of 70 m, in this study. The dynamic co-simulation combines software of SIMPACK, MATLAB/SIMULINK, AeroDyn, HydroDyn, WAMIT, and MAP++ to achieve the complex dynamic simulation of aerodynamics, hydrodynamics, mechanism dynamics and control system dynamics. In addition, this study proposes a novel power-control strategy combining fuzzy sliding-mode control with additional pitching-rate feedback. Since the motion of the floating platform, especially the pitching motion, contributes to power oscillation, the proposed novel power-control strategy with additional pitching-rate feedback can reduce the influence of the floating-platform oscillation motion, and is verified under different conditions.

Keywords

• offshore floating wind turbine
• semi-submersible floater
• dynamic co-simulation
• power control
• fuzzy sliding-mode control
• pitching-rate feedback