Fault-tolerant control of wind turbines with hydrostatic transmission using Takagi–Sugeno and sliding mode techniques

In this paper, a Takagi–Sugeno Sliding Mode Observer for actuator fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control scheme of wind turbines with hydrostatic transmission are presented. It will be shown that sliding mode techniques have the advantages that several actuator faults of the wind turbine drive train can be simultaneously reconstructed with one and the same observer and directly applied for fault compensation. Furthermore, a simple compensation approach is implemented by subtracting the reconstructed faults obtained from the (faulty) inputs. These corrected inputs act on the system as virtual actuators, such that the originally designed controller for the nominal, i.e. fault-free situation, can still be used. The fault reconstruction and fault tolerant control strategy are tested in simulations with several faults of different types.