EP2596238A2 - Procédé et dispositif de détermination d'un angle de flexion d'une pale de rotor d'une éolienne - Google Patents

Procédé et dispositif de détermination d'un angle de flexion d'une pale de rotor d'une éolienne

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EP2596238A2
EP2596238A2 EP11730578.9A EP11730578A EP2596238A2 EP 2596238 A2 EP2596238 A2 EP 2596238A2 EP 11730578 A EP11730578 A EP 11730578A EP 2596238 A2 EP2596238 A2 EP 2596238A2
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rotor blade
rotor
determining
bending angle
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Felix Hess
Martin Voss
Boris Buchtala
Christian Eitner
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Robert Bosch GmbH
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F01—MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; STEAM ENGINES
    • F01D—NON-POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, e.g. STEAM TURBINES
    • F01D25/00—Component parts, details, or accessories, not provided for in, or of interest apart from, other groups
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F03—MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS; WIND, SPRING, OR WEIGHT MOTORS; PRODUCING MECHANICAL POWER OR A REACTIVE PROPULSIVE THRUST, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F03D—WIND MOTORS
    • F03D7/00—Controlling wind motors 
    • F03D7/02—Controlling wind motors  the wind motors having rotation axis substantially parallel to the air flow entering the rotor
    • F03D7/022—Adjusting aerodynamic properties of the blades
    • F03D7/0224—Adjusting blade pitch
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F03—MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS; WIND, SPRING, OR WEIGHT MOTORS; PRODUCING MECHANICAL POWER OR A REACTIVE PROPULSIVE THRUST, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F03D—WIND MOTORS
    • F03D17/00—Monitoring or testing of wind motors, e.g. diagnostics
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F05—INDEXING SCHEMES RELATING TO ENGINES OR PUMPS IN VARIOUS SUBCLASSES OF CLASSES F01-F04
    • F05B—INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO WIND, SPRING, WEIGHT, INERTIA OR LIKE MOTORS, TO MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS COVERED BY SUBCLASSES F03B, F03D AND F03G
    • F05B2260/00—Function
    • F05B2260/80—Diagnostics
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F05—INDEXING SCHEMES RELATING TO ENGINES OR PUMPS IN VARIOUS SUBCLASSES OF CLASSES F01-F04
    • F05B—INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO WIND, SPRING, WEIGHT, INERTIA OR LIKE MOTORS, TO MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS COVERED BY SUBCLASSES F03B, F03D AND F03G
    • F05B2270/00—Control
    • F05B2270/30—Control parameters, e.g. input parameters
    • F05B2270/331—Mechanical loads
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F05—INDEXING SCHEMES RELATING TO ENGINES OR PUMPS IN VARIOUS SUBCLASSES OF CLASSES F01-F04
    • F05B—INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO WIND, SPRING, WEIGHT, INERTIA OR LIKE MOTORS, TO MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS COVERED BY SUBCLASSES F03B, F03D AND F03G
    • F05B2270/00—Control
    • F05B2270/80—Devices generating input signals, e.g. transducers, sensors, cameras or strain gauges
    • F05B2270/807—Accelerometers
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02E—REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
    • Y02E10/00—Energy generation through renewable energy sources
    • Y02E10/70—Wind energy
    • Y02E10/72—Wind turbines with rotation axis in wind direction

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  • the present invention relates to a method and a device for determining a bending angle of a rotor blade of a wind turbine according to the independent patent claims.
  • Wind turbines are controlled by the adjustment of the rotor blades about their longitudinal axis and the Generatorrnoment.
  • the controlled variable for the pitch control is the rotor speed and the manipulated variable is the pitch angle of the rotor blades.
  • the collective pitch control CPC collective pitch control
  • the three rotor blades are all adjusted with the same pitch angle.
  • the synchronous adjustment of the blade angle causes the rotational speed to be above the
  • this blade pitch mechanism is also used as a brake by blowing the blades with the nose into the wind so that the rotor no longer delivers any significant drive torque.
  • pitching and yawing moments on the nacelle result from this collective pitch adjustment.
  • the asymmetric loads are caused, for example, by wind shears in the vertical direction (boundary layers), yaw angle errors, gusts and turbulences, impoundment of the flow at the tower, etc.
  • DMS strain gauges
  • the present invention provides a method for determining a bending angle of a rotor blade of a wind turbine, the method comprising the following steps:
  • the present invention provides a device for determining a bending tendency of a rotor blade of a wind power plant, the device having the following features:
  • a unit for determining the bending angle of the rotor blade of the wind turbine using the acceleration signal a unit for determining the bending angle of the rotor blade of the wind turbine using the acceleration signal.
  • Also of advantage is a computer program product with program code, which is stored on a machine-readable carrier such as a semiconductor memory, a hard disk memory or an optical memory and which is used to carry out the method according to one of the embodiments described above, when the program on a control device or a device is performed.
  • a machine-readable carrier such as a semiconductor memory, a hard disk memory or an optical memory
  • the invention is based on the finding that the bending of the rotor blade of the wind turbine is in a predetermined relationship to a bending moment of this rotor blade at the blade root.
  • an acceleration or an acceleration signal is used, which is measured substantially perpendicular to the rotor plane.
  • the acceleration in the blade longitudinal direction can also be used.
  • a virtual plane or actual plane in which the rotor blades rotate about the rotor axis of the wind power plant is referred to as the rotor plane. This means that the acceleration used in the present approach represents an acceleration in the direction of the rotor axis.
  • Knowing this predetermined relationship can in this case from the acceleration of the rotor blade or at least a part of the rotor blade, a conclusion can be drawn on the present bending moment at the blade root of this rotor blade, so that a conventional control unit for determining the pitch angle can be further used using slightly modified control parameters.
  • a conventional control unit for determining the pitch angle can be further used using slightly modified control parameters.
  • the sheet deflection ie a value beta
  • beta is determined from the determined acceleration, from which the IPC pitch angle or the angle of attack of the rotor blades is determined.
  • the presented control can thus use the bending moment (or the bending angle) and then determines the so-called pitch angle of the rotor blade.
  • pitch angle can also be used for the term "pitch angle”.
  • the angle of attack or the individual angle of attack for the rotor blade can therefore be determined from the bending angle.
  • the present invention has the advantage that conventional control units can continue to be used, so that no costly new development of a control unit for controlling the angle of attack of the rotor blades of Windkraftan- plant is required.
  • sensors can be used to provide the sensor sizes used, which are significantly more robust against aging phenomena and measurement errors.
  • a course of the acceleration can be detected in the step of reading in, wherein in the step of determining from the course of acceleration, a spectrum is determined and the angle of attack is determined using the determined spectrum.
  • a spectrum which is determined over a certain period of time and subsequently transformed into the frequency domain, smaller measurement errors can be compensated. It can be exploited that occur by the circulation of the rotor blade or the rotor blades physical influences at certain positions in the flight circle of the rotor blade periodically, namely, exactly when the rotor blade reaches the specific position in the following circulation again.
  • the step of reading a movement of the rotor blade substantially perpendicular to the rotor plane can be effected actively.
  • Such an embodiment of the present invention offers the advantage that spectra already to be expected for specific, frequently occurring scenarios can be measured or calculated and stored in a memory. For example, in this case each spectrum stored in the memory can be assigned a specific bending angle.
  • the numerical or circuit engineering very simple implementation of the determinations of the bending angle can be carried out in this way, since essentially a comparison of the determined
  • a smoothing of the read-in measured value is obtained by the filtering, which increases the stability of the control behavior for the angle of attack.
  • high-frequency signal interference components are filtered away and the pure useful signal, which carries the desired information to be evaluated with regard to gravity and centrifugal force, is retained.
  • information about a bending stiffness or an approximation of the bending stiffness information about a distance of an acceleration sensor providing the acceleration signal from a rotor axis, an inclination angle of the rotor axis relative to the Horizontal and / or an acceleration of a tower head of the wind turbine can be used.
  • Such an embodiment of the present invention offers the advantage that this makes possible a very precise estimation of the bending moment occurring at the blade root, so that a small change in the parameterization of control units already in use is required. This is particularly relevant because the currently used control units determine the control of the angle of attack for a rotor blade on the basis of an occurring bending moment, so that an exchange of the control variable can be implemented very easily.
  • a time profile of the acceleration at a position of the rotor blade can be determined in the step of determining from the acceleration signal and the bending angle or blade deflection of the rotor blade can be determined using the determined course.
  • the time course can extend over a rotor blade circulation around the rotor axis.
  • a further acceleration signal can be read in, which is measured in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the rotor blade.
  • the step of determining the bending angle of the rotor blade of the wind turbine is determined using the further acceleration signal.
  • FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a control unit for the individual angle of attack of a rotor blade of a wind power plant, in which an embodiment of the present invention can be used;
  • FIG. 4 shows a diagram for clarifying the relationship between a blade deflection and a root bending moment over time
  • FIG. 5 shows an illustration of a sensor coordinate system on a rotor blade
  • Fig. 7 is a diagram showing a low-pass filtered sensor signal and a reference signal
  • an embodiment includes an "and / or" link between a first feature / step and a second feature / step, this may be read such that the embodiment according to one embodiment includes both the first feature / the first feature and the second feature The second step and, according to another embodiment, either only the first feature / step, or only the second feature / step 2.
  • a particular object of the invention is to provide a way to adjust the yawing and pitching moments through a closed-loop control process
  • the manipulated variables are favorably the individual angles of incidence of the blades of the wind turbine.
  • the controlled variables are determined according to the approach presented here via acceleration sensors on the rotor blades in at least one Rotor blade at least one acceleration sensor installed, the accelerations in the direction of impact (ie perpendicular to the rotor plane) can measure.
  • This offers the advantage that in this case point sensors can be used which are easy to apply in the leaves, are easy to replace and static errors such as tensions due to temperature differences and the inhomogeneous sheet material does not capture.
  • the sensors may already be present if condition monitoring of the blades is installed.
  • a wind turbine means a system with a tower on which a nacelle is mounted.
  • This gondola contains a generator that with is coupled to a rotor, wherein the rotor in the example shown in FIG. 1 has two rotor blades.
  • the tower can thereby run at a flow of wind and a transmission of forces from the rotor to the nacelle and the tower a tower longitudinal bend 100 and a Turmquerbiegung 1 10.
  • the tower can also perform a tower twist 120 about its vertical axis. A movement of the tower about its vertical axis is also referred to as yawing 130 of the wind turbine.
  • forces can act on the tower or the wind turbine, which leads to a roll 140, that is, a rolling motion about the rotor axis of the wind turbine. If a movement is induced by the action of wind on the wind turbine, which acts both perpendicular to the vertical axis of the tower and to the rotor axis, it is spoken of a pitch 150 of the wind turbine.
  • the rotor blades can execute a pivoting movement 160 or a striking movement 170 or twist inwardly, which is also referred to as torsion 180, now relative to the rotor blades.
  • the pivoting movement 160 corresponds to a desired movement of the rotor blades about the rotor axis, wherein the striking movement 170 denotes a movement, in particular of the tips of the rotor blades, out of the rotor plane, that is to say in the direction of extension of the rotor axis.
  • the striking movement 170 denotes a movement, in particular of the tips of the rotor blades, out of the rotor plane, that is to say in the direction of extension of the rotor axis.
  • Such a definition of movements of a wind turbine is modeled on the definition in the book "Wind turbines" by E. Hau, in which corresponding control parameters for the yaw and pitching moment of the nacelle are called.
  • the impact movement leads to bending moments at the blade root and is cause for greed and pitching moments of the gondola.
  • acceleration signals from sensors on the blade and the processing of these signals can be done within a control method to reduce the yawing and pitching moments on the nacelle via the individual adjustment of blade pitch angles.
  • the system 200 for controlling the wind power plant 210 comprises a unit 220 for operation management and a unit 230 for controlling the individual angle of attack 235 (ßipci, 2,3) for each of the rotor blades of the wind turbine 210.
  • the unit 220 for operation management also known as CPC, Collective Pitch Control
  • the unit 220 for operation now on the one hand determine a generator torque 240 to be set and make this available to control the wind turbine 210 and on the other hand a common angle of attack 242 (ßcpc) for all rotor blades determine at the wind turbine has an optimal power output.
  • the unit 230 (also referred to as IPC controller) for controlling the individual angle of attack 235 receives from at least one sensor in or on a rotor blade of the wind turbine 210 a signal relating to an acceleration a of this rotor blade at the position at which the sensor is mounted.
  • the unit 230 for controlling the individual angle of attack 235 can receive signals via accelerations ai >2> 3 from a plurality of, for example, all rotor blades and in this case a corresponding signal ⁇ ipci, 2 , 3 for each rotor blade for which it receives a sensor signal provide for adjusting the individual angle of attack 235 of the relevant rotor blade.
  • the common angle of attack signal for each individual rotor blade can be corrected to account for local wind inhomogeneities.
  • the shear of the wind leads to asymmetric loads.
  • the signal with respect to the common angle of attack 242 can then be linked, for example, additively with the different signals with respect to the individual angle of attack 235 for the respective rotor blades, resulting in a control signal 250 for the individual rotor blades of the wind turbine 210 concerned.
  • This adjustment of the angle of attack of the individual rotor blades of the wind turbine 210 in accordance with the desired angles of attack is subsequently set by an actuator 255.
  • the rotor blades are then deflected differently in the direction of impact, said deflection or the acceleration occurring in turn measured by the corresponding sensors and the sensor signals 265 of the unit 220 for operation and the unit 230 for controlling the individual pitch is supplied.
  • acceleration signals which represent an acceleration of the individual rotor blades in the direction of impact
  • Conventional wind turbines usually use the bending moments at the blade root of the rotor blades for adjusting the individual angles of attack of the respective rotor blades.
  • a signal of a substantially more robust acceleration sensor can be used to adequately utilize a signal for controlling the angle of attack of the rotor blade representing the acceleration of the rotor blade or of a part of the rotor blade in the direction of impact, by determining the bending angle of the rotor blade according to the invention from this signal.
  • a signal which is easy to process and as low as possible in terms of a bending angle of a rotor blade two variants are conceivable.
  • a natural frequency analysis of the specific accelerations or the acceleration signals derived therefrom can be carried out.
  • the natural vibrations of the (rotor) blade are used.
  • the excitation during operation of the system is carried out by aerodynamically induced vibrations or an additionally mounted shaker, ie a unit that actively sets the rotor blade in vibration.
  • the acceleration sensors continuously record and store signals and determine the amplitude spectrum of the natural oscillations after a certain measuring time (maximum 1 sec.).
  • This frequency spectrum is compared for example with desired spectra, which are stored in the control device and belong to certain load conditions of the sheet. By adjusting the blade angle, the load on the blade is reduced, which is controlled by comparison with the target spectra.
  • the desired spectra are determined beforehand by measurements on the blade with and without loads, or determined by natural frequency analysis from calculations.
  • the advantage of this variant is that the measurement technology already available for condition monitoring can be used, which has already integrated the sensors, measured value acquisition, processing and evaluation of the acceleration signals.
  • This also includes already stored target spectra.
  • nominal spectra for load cases stored in the control device should be included for such an application scenario. These can be determined by measurements on blade test stands. It is more probable to perform reference measurements before mounting on the blade and to carry out analog measurements after mounting at wind speeds below the start-up speed on the rotor blade. On the basis of these spectra and the sheet data, the deviations from these spectra under load are calculated by simulation and stored as nominal spectra.
  • a second variant for the use of the approach presented here is to be seen in the use of data from a direct acceleration measurement and its extension.
  • the bending angle of the rotor blade is determined from the measured accelerations.
  • the main goal then is to set the same bending angles on all rotor blades.
  • manipulated variables are the blade angles. Due to aerodynamic effects such as turbulence and vortex shedding vibrations of the blade are always excited, but which are higher-frequency than the vibrations to be corrected in the range of the first natural frequencies of blade and tower. Therefore, for the control, the measured acceleration should be filtered by a low-pass filter.
  • the lower half of the rotor blade is favorable, since the blade tip due to the taper and prevailing there cross flows, which also drive the tip vortex, can be excited to strong vibrations.
  • the following aspects can be introduced. Firstly, the use of known and possibly already existing measuring devices as well as data possibly determined by the condition monitoring of the sheets can take place. Furthermore, there is no need to apply strain gauges or the like where the current state of the art does not know where and how to attach them accurately. In addition, the temperature compensation of these sensors is technically not satisfactorily solved. In addition, an acceleration sensor can be easily replaced in the event of a defect. This is included laminated strain sensors impossible. The signals provided by strain sensors may not be meaningful because they only detect local strain. Also occur in the use of the approach described above, no errors by static loads such as temperature stresses, local stress peaks by the inhomogeneous material, ice accumulation (with simultaneous use of the
  • an essential aspect is the use of a signal of an acceleration sensor, which measures the acceleration of the rotor blade in the direction of the rotor axis.
  • the acceleration sensor should be able to measure stationary acceleration.
  • the measurement of the acceleration in the sheet is known in the current state of the art and is among other things to
  • a measuring concept is presented with the invention presented here, which is a suitable signal evaluation for the IPC control allows.
  • an online signal evaluation can take place.
  • One possible application is, for example, in the field of IPC control or in experimental measurements on wind turbines.
  • the blade angle of the rotor blades of a wind turbine For the regulation of the blade angle of the rotor blades of a wind turbine, the
  • Sheet deflection in the direction of impact i.e., perpendicular to the rotor plane at 0 degrees
  • the blade deflection can be measured directly via strain gauges on the rotor blade root.
  • An alternative sensor concept for the measurement of blade deflection is the use of acceleration sensors, whose measurement equation is described by the so-called navigation equation (3), which reads as follows: where a corresponds to the measured acceleration and g corresponds to the acceleration due to gravity.
  • the projection of the gravitational vector and thus the pitch angle of the sensor coordinate system can be estimated via the sensor signal.
  • the orientation of the sensor it is possible to conclude on the deflection of the rotor blade and thus on the corresponding impact bending moment.
  • a measured relationship for the deflection of the rotor blade and the corresponding impact moment is shown in the diagram of Fig. 4, in which the abscissa represents the time and the ordinate the course of the blade deflection (dashed line) and the blade root bending moment (solid line) are shown , It can be seen from FIG. 4 that the curves for the measured blade deflection and the measured blade root bending moment correspond, so that the blade deflection and consequently also the acceleration which can be used for the control of the individual pitch angle of the rotor blade can be used Leaf deflection leads.
  • the x-component of the sensor signal For the determination of the sheet deflection, it is sufficient to consider the x-component of the sensor signal, assuming negligible torsion.
  • the x component points in the direction of the normal vector on the leaf surface and is, insofar as there is no leaking twist, in the bending direction.
  • a sensor coordinate system 500 in the rotor blade As shown in FIG. 5.
  • a coordinate system 510 in the hub of the rotor and a coordinate system 520 in the rotor shaft can be used for the conversion of the sensor acceleration values, as will be described in more detail below.
  • a transformation of the coordinates from the tower into the rotor axis, from the rotor axis into the rotor blade and from the rotor blade into the bent rotor blade is first carried out for this purpose.
  • the following transformation matrices can be used for this:
  • ⁇ represents the angle of inclination of the rotor axis with respect to a horizontal
  • ⁇ represents the rotor azimuth angle about the rotor axis
  • ⁇ represents the angle of rotation of the rotor blade at the location of the sensor from the rotor plane.
  • first column of the above matrix represents the centripetal acceleration
  • second column of the above formula represents the measured accelerations due to the rotation of the sensor coordinate system
  • third column of the formula given above represents the gravitational acceleration
  • the proportions due to the rotation of the sensor coordinate system can be filtered by a low-pass filter and thus eliminated.
  • two measuring concepts or methods can be realized.
  • a single-axis accelerometer is used on the rotor blade.
  • the acceleration is measured, which is directed, for example, normally to the rotor blade surface.
  • This acceleration is referred to as a X s e sor and, ignoring the tower head acceleration, can be expressed as follows:
  • X tSensor ⁇ 2 ⁇ cos ⁇ ⁇ sin ⁇ ⁇ r s + r s ⁇ ⁇ + g ⁇ (cos ⁇ ⁇ sin ⁇ + sin ß ⁇ cos ⁇ ⁇ cos ⁇ ),
  • ⁇ ⁇ cos ß ⁇ sin ⁇ -I-sin ß ⁇ cos ⁇ ⁇ cos ⁇
  • the trajectory of gravity acceleration can be used unambiguously for the determination of ⁇ .
  • the change in the projection trajectory of the acceleration due to gravity is thus due to the deflection of the rotor blade ⁇ ) and can be used for the determination of ⁇ .
  • This first measuring method of sheet deflection on the basis of a single-axis measuring acceleration sensor offers advantages in terms of a cost-effective sensor and a simpler evaluation of the sensor signals than in the utilization of multiple sensor signals.
  • a disadvantage of this measuring method for the bending angle is that a smaller useful signal is available, since only the signal amplitude can be used for the determination of ⁇ .
  • sizes can be used, as they are explained in more detail with reference to FIG.
  • the acceleration of the rotor blade 300 in the direction of the rotor axis 310 is considered, wherein the acceleration sensor is arranged at the distance r from the latter.
  • the second term (ie, the second product) is negligible when the acceleration sensor signal is low-pass filtered
  • a constant proportion of co 2 -r s be obtained 58m / s 2.
  • the equation for a x sensor given above indicates how the acceleration measured in the x-direction is composed of the known and unknown quantities. If this acceleration is additionally measured, then the accuracy of the determination of ⁇ can be increased.
  • the use of a Kalman filter can lead to better results.
  • a model of the rotor blade is simulated in the Kalman filter and the deflection determined therefrom. The simulation is updated or corrected in each time step with the aid of the two measurements (a x , a z ) (for example by means of a predictor, corrector method). From the sheet pitch, the sheet deflection can be determined directly by means of a model for the sheet bending (ie the bending line). From the model for sheet bending, the blade root bending moment follows.
  • the bending stiffness EI must be known. Since the known IPC controllers only use the differences in the leaf root bending moments of the blades for regulation, an absolutely accurate value is not required and an approximate value is sufficient for the bending stiffness El. Such a measurement concept mentioned above would also be detectable simply by the presence of an acceleration sensor in the rotor blade, which is arranged to measure the acceleration in the z-direction. This application of the equations described above can then be deduced from the acceleration signals on the bending angle of the rotor blade, which is then used to control the angle of attack of the rotor blade. In particular, the use of the second method has the advantage that over a rotor revolution there is a constant useful signal due to a constant centrifugal force, from which the g-projection can then be calculated or used to determine ⁇ .
  • the projection component of the fall acceleration which is purely due to the impact bending of the rotor blade, should be determined.
  • the projection change of the fall acceleration which results from the rigid body movement of the system, can be filtered out.
  • Two degrees of freedom determine the rigid body movement: the rotation around the rotor axis and the Blade angle adjustment about the pitch axis.
  • the rotation of the azimuth bearing could still be considered, but this is neglected in this consideration.
  • the projection component responsible for the leaf deflection thus results from:
  • g RBFiiter corresponds to the calculated on the basis of rigid body motion projection vector of gravity acceleration.
  • gMess is the acceleration component measured by the sensor. Bending is the correspondingly filtered signal which is due solely to the elastic deformation of the rotor blade (i.e., corresponds to the bend in the direction of impact).
  • equation (4) it is possible to filter out the projection component of the gravitational vector, which is not due to the deflection.
  • the calculation of the case acceleration acceleration resulting from the rigid body movement can be seen from the following equation (5).
  • Tßiade Hub corresponds to a transformation matrix for transformation into leaf segment COS
  • Tz ( ⁇ corresponds to a rotation about ⁇ (i.e., a pitch angle of the rotor blade) with respect to the Z-axis of the sheet-bearing COS;
  • HubjRotor corresponds to a transformation matrix for transformation into leaf-bearing COS
  • ⁇ () corresponds to a rotation about a (ie, an azimuth angle of the rotor) with respect to the x-axis of the rotor COS.
  • 9Rotorcos denotes the gravitational vector expressed in the inertial rotor axis coordinate system.
  • the rotor axis is tilted by about 5 ° up to the so-called Shaft angle.
  • the measuring principle according to the first method is shown in the two subfigures of FIG. In this case, a measuring principle and an associated measurement signal is shown in the left part of the figure, in which the wind turbine or the rotor blades are bent. In the right-hand part of FIG.
  • FIGS. 7 and 8 show a measuring principle and an associated measuring signal when this measuring principle is used, it being possible to infer the elastic deformation of the rotor blade from the change in the amplitude.
  • the reference signal corresponds in each case to the projection of the gravitational acceleration into the sensor coordinate system. It can be seen that the low-pass filtering makes it possible to determine the amplitude of the projection of the gravitational vector. For the evaluation of the sheet deflection, the amplitude size of the projection is relevant.
  • the approach presented here also makes it possible to use an already well-developed acceleration sensor system (for example MM3, DCU) of the applicant for the sensor signal evaluation described here and can be used on a larger scale in the area of regulating wind turbines in the future.
  • an already well-developed acceleration sensor system for example MM3, DCU
  • the present invention comprises a method 900 for determining a pitch angle of a rotor blade of a wind turbine, as shown as a flow chart in FIG. 9.
  • the method 900 includes a step of reading in 910 an acceleration signal representing an acceleration of the rotor blade acting substantially perpendicular to a rotor plane of the wind turbine. Further, the method 900 includes a step of determining 920 the angle of attack of the rotor blade of the wind turbine using the acceleration signal.

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Abstract

L'invention concerne un procédé (900) de détermination d'un angle de flexion d'une pale de rotor (300) d'une éolienne (210). Le procédé (900) comporte une étape de lecture (910) d'au moins un signal d'accélération (a1) représentant une accélération de la pale de rotor sensiblement perpendiculaire à un plan de rotor (320) de l'éolienne. Le procédé (900) comporte également une étape de détermination (920) de l'angle de flexion de la pale de rotor de l'éolienne au moyen du signal d'accélération.
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