Fault Prediction of Pitch Actuator for Wind Turbines

摘要

Hydraulic pitch-controlled system is one of the components of wind turbines which are frequently prone to faults. Early fault prediction of the pitch control system can improve the operation reliability effectively and reduce the unnecessary loss. Wind turbines suffer much environmental interference; moreover, data-based fault prediction is vulnerable to occur false alarms by the impact of these factors. And it is difficult to implement the fault isolation. So this paper presents a fault prediction method for the pitch-controlled system, which is based on the mathematical model of wind turbines physical properties. The residual root mean square (RMS) is used as residual evaluation function. In the end of the paper, by the simulation using the hydraulic pitch actuator fault as the example, the effectiveness of the proposed fault prediction scheme is verified.