A Quick Fault Detection System Applied to Pitch Actuators of Wind Turbines

Abstract

The design of fast respond fault detection systems to wind turbines results an important subject and represents a notable challenger too. This paper presents a recent approach on a quick response fault detection system to pitch actuators in controlled wind turbines. The obtained time detection is about 10 seconds. Our scheme was possible by manipulating an adaptive parametric estimation block by varying the time scales among the actuator and the identification process dynamics. Additionally, numerical experiments are realized to support the main contribution