Torsional vibration characteristics analysis and adaptive fixed‐time control of wind turbine drivetrain

Abstract

Abstract The drivetrain has an important impact on the stability and reliability of wind turbines operating in complex conditions, which belongs to the electromechanical coupling system. This work studies the two domains of research on drivetrain vibration analysis and control method in detail. The electromechanically coupled torsional vibration model is first established by considering the air gap magnetic field energy of the PMSG. Preliminary analysis in terms of Hamiltonian energy indicates that there is sufficient energy to sustain the exciting oscillation behaviors. Moreover, to reduce the vibration amplitude caused by wind speed or torsional stiffness, a novel adaptive fixed‐time control method is proposed to solve the issue of wind turbine drivetrain chaotic oscillation with uncertainties and disturbances. Furthermore, the proposed method not only can prevent the jumping and bifurcation of torsional vibration from happening, but also there are the advantages of the control scheme with high accuracy, fast convergence rate and strong robustness. For the fair comparison, three different control methods have been used to demonstrate the superiority of the control scheme by the simulation results. The research results can provide a theoretical basis for the parameter design and control of wind turbine drivetrain.

Keywords

• adaptive technique
• electromechanical coupling
• fixed‐time stability
• Hamiltonian energy
• torsional vibration
• wind turbine drivetrain