Stage Cost Formulations of Online Rainflow-counting for Model Predictive Control of Fatigue

Stefan Loew, Dragan Obradovic, Abhinav Anand, Andrei Szabo

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Abstract

The material fatigue cost formulation of Direct Online Rainflow-counting is reformulated to an Economic Stage Cost and a Tracking Stage Cost. This enables implementation in the majority of standard MPC frameworks, and even more importantly, this will enable further theoretical analysis. Key enablers for this reformulation are decoupling of fatigue cost in time, pre-simulation of the system-dynamics before the MPC, and periodic update of time-varying cost-parameters. Simulation-based tests of the cost calculation are shown which provide further insight and verify the correspondence to a classical moving-window a posteriori fatigue analysis. A brief theoretical discussion on the influence of presented approximations is provided. Finally, dynamic closed-loop simulations are presented which show the effectiveness of the formulations in attenuating oscillations of mechanical stress for a wind turbine model.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEuropean Control Conference 2020, ECC 2020
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages475-482
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9783907144015
StatePublished - May 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event18th European Control Conference, ECC 2020 - Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation
Duration: 12 May 202015 May 2020

Publication series

NameEuropean Control Conference 2020, ECC 2020

Conference

Conference18th European Control Conference, ECC 2020
Country/TerritoryRussian Federation
CitySaint Petersburg
Period12/05/2015/05/20

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