Vibration Mitigation of Hybrid Oscillating Water Column-Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Using ANFIS-Based Airflow Control
摘要
This paper introduces a novel approach to model and stabilize a Floating Offshore Wind Turbine (FOWT) by employing Oscillating Water Columns (OWC) as an active structural control system. The innovative concept involves designing a new floating barge-like platform with integrated OWCs on opposite sides of the platform to mitigate undesired oscillations of the system. These OWCs counteract the bending forces caused by wind on the tower and waves on the barge platform. To synchronize the opposing forces with the system’s tilting, a proposed Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System-based airflow control strategy is employed. Through manipulation of the barge platform’s pitch angle, the ANFIS airflow control system adjusts the valves on either side, opening one and closing the other accordingly. Simulation results, compared with a standard FOWT demonstrate the effectiveness of the ANFIS airflow control. It is shown to be superior in reducing platform pitching and the fore-aft translation of the tower top.