Floating Offshore Wind Turbines Oscillations Damping.

This article deals with the modelling and control of oscillations that appear on floating offshore wind turbines (FOWT). First, these offshore wind energy systems, located in deep waters, are described and the modeling approach is presented. Secondly, the traditional structural control strategies based on tuned mass-damper (TMD) systems for oscillations reduction are complemented with a passive mechanism called inerter in order to improve the performance of the structural controller. This work is based on a previous work by the authors in which the inerter was located in parallel to an existing TMD in the nacelle of the FOWT. In this work, the inerter is located between the tower and the barge and results are compared to those obtained previously showing better performance. The results here presented are promising in terms of oscillations damping, both in amplitude and frequency, and constitute preliminary results of the ongoing current research of the authors.

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