• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2007년도 춘계학술대회B
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• pp.3347-3352
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• 2007

This paper describes a research for the performance improvement of the straight-bladed vertical axis wind turbine. To improve the performance of VAWT, the individual blade pitch control method is adopted. For the wind turbine, CFD analysis is carried out by changing blade pitch angle according to the change of wind speed and wind direction. By this method, capacity and power efficiency of VAWT are obtained according to the wind speed and rotating of rotor, and could predict the overall performance of VAWT. It was manufactured to verify performance of the experimental system that consists of rotor including four blades and base. Furthermore, torque sensor and power generator were installed. Also, active controller which can change the pitch angle of the individual blade according to the wind speed and direction was used.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제33권11호
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• pp.894-899
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• 2009

Aerodynamic power and torque of wind turbine are highly nonlinear and its operation mode depends on control strategies. Therefore, it is essential to define steady-state curves for the purpose of control and operation of wind turbine system. The steady-state curves of wind turbine can be defined by determining its operating points. In this paper, an algorithm to determine operating points of variable-speed variable-pitch wind turbine is presented on the basis of pitch-to-feather control strategy. And this algorithm is applied to obtain steady-state curves for an 1.5MW wind turbine.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제30권6호
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• pp.7-13
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 새로운 형태의 혼합형 유전 알고리즘을 제안하고 성능을 검증한 후 30kW 피치제어 가변 풍력발전시스템의 블레이드 설계와 피치제어 최적화에 적용하여 주어진 Weibull 분포함수에서 동력을 최대화하는 최적의 블레이드 시위 및 비틀림각의 분포와 작동범위내에서 동력을 일정하게 유지하기 위한 최적의 피치각을 결정하였다.

• 항공우주시스템공학회지
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.20-26
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• 2014

This paper presents the procedures and the results of the pitch control force via flight test for a light airplane in order to make out the stability of the aircraft and the compliance with concerned regulation. The flight test procedures were determined in order to obtain the aircraft type certification. The instrumentation equipments including airspeed indicator, accelerometer, and pitch control force measurement tools are used to perform the flight test. For the flight test, the airspeed and the pitch control force with related normal acceleration are measured sustaining turn flight with bank angle derived from trim speed. The flight test results showed that the handling qualities of the airplane are complied with the KAS-23, the regulation of the Korean government for the light airplane type certification.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.273-280
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• 2012

Most variable speed wind turbines have pitch control mechanisms and one of their objectives is to protect turbines when the wind speed is too high. By adjusting pitch angles of wind turbine, the inlet power and the torque developed by the turbine are regulated. In this paper, the difference between the real wind speed and its rated value is regarded as a disturbance, and a component called disturbance observer (DOB) is added to the pre-designed control loop. The additional DOB based controller estimates the disturbance and generates a compensating signal to suppress the effect of disturbance on the system. As a result, the stability and the performance of the closed loop system guaranteed by an outer-loop controller (designed for a nominal system without taking into account of disturbances) are approximately recovered in the steady state. Simulation results are presented to verify the performance of the proposed control scheme.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.178-183
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• 2006

As a lot of researches on the speech signal processing are performed due to the recent rapid development of the information-communication technology. the pitch period is used as an important element to various speech signal application fields such as the speech recognition. speaker identification. speech analysis. or speech synthesis. A variety of algorithms for the time and the frequency domains related with such pitch period detection have been suggested. One of the pitch detection algorithms for the time domain. AMDF (average magnitude difference function) uses distance between two valley points as the calculated pitch period. However, it has a problem that the algorithm becomes complex in selecting the valley points for the pitch period detection. Therefore, in this paper we proposed the modified AMDF(M-AMDF) algorithm which recognizes the entire minimum valley points as the pitch period of the speech signal by using the rotation transform of AMDF. In addition, a threshold is set to the beginning portion of speech so that it can be used as the selection criteria for the pitch period. Moreover the proposed algorithm is compared with the conventional ones by means of the simulation, and presents better properties than others.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.275-284
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• 2012

This paper proposes an attitude and direction control of a single wheel balanced robot. A unicycle robot is controlled by two independent control laws: the mobile inverted pendulum control method for pitch axis and the reaction wheel pendulum control method for roll axis. It is assumed that both roll dynamics and pitch dynamics are decoupled. Therefore the roll and pitch dynamics are obtained independently considering the interaction as disturbances to each other. Each control law is implemented by a controller separately. The unicycle robot has two DC motors to drive the disk for roll and to drive the wheel for pitch. Since there is no force to change the yaw direction, the present paper proposes a method for changing the yaw direction. The angle data are obtained by a fusion of a gyro sensor and an accelerometer. Experimental results show the performance of the controller and verify the effectiveness of the proposed control algorithm.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2005년도 추계종합학술대회
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• pp.1019-1022
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• 2005

최근 정보 통신 기술의 급속한 발전에 의해 음성 신호 처리에 관련된 많은 연구가 진행됨에 따라 피치 주기는 음성 인식, 화자 식별, 음성 분석 및 합성 등과 같은 많은 응용분야에서 중요한 요소로써 적용되고 있다. 이러한 피치 주기 검출에 관련된 시간 영역과 주파수 영역에서의 많은 알고리즘이 제안되었으며, 시간 영역의 피치 검출 알고리즘의 하나인 AMDF(average magnitude difference function)는 각 valley점의 거리를 피치 주기로 계산한다. 그러나 피치 주기 검출을 위한 valley점 선정에 있어서 알고리즘이 복잡해지는 문제점이 발생한다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 AMDF의 회전변환을 이용하여 전체 최소 valley점을 음성 신호의 피치 주기로 인식하는 간단한 알고리즘을 제안하였으며, 음성의 시작구간에 대해 경계값을 설정하여 피치 주기 선정에 대한 판단기준으로 사용하였다. 그리고 제안한 알고리즘을 시뮬레이션을 통해 기존의 방법들과 비교하였다.

• 센서학회지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.28-37
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• 2013

This paper presents a fault-tolerant control technique for wind turbine systems with sensor and actuator faults. The control objective is to maximize power production and minimize turbine loads by calculating a desired pitch angle within their limits. Any fault with a sensor and actuator can cause significant error in the pitch position of the corresponding blade. This problem may result in insufficient torque such that the power reference cannot be achieved. In this paper, a fault-tolerant control technique using a robust dynamic inversion observer and control allocation is employed to achieve successful pitch control despite these faults in the sensor and actuator. The observer based detection method is used to detect and isolate sensor faults by checking whether errors are larger than threshold values. In addition, the control allocation technique is adopted to tolerate actuator fault. Control allocation is one of the most commonly used fault-tolerant control techniques, especially for over-actuated systems. Further, the control allocation method can be used to achieve the power reference even in the event of blade actuator fault by redistributing the lost torque due to erroneous pitch position into non-faulty blade actuators. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated through simulations with a benchmark model of the wind turbine.

• Ocean Systems Engineering
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.295-307
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• 2013

More FOWTs (floating offshore wind turbines) will be installed as relevant regulations and technological hurdles are removed in the coming years. In the present study, a numerical prediction tool has been developed for the fully coupled dynamic analysis of FOWTs in time domain including aero-loading, tower elasticity, blade-rotor dynamics and control, mooring dynamics, and platform motions so that the influence of rotor-control dynamics on the hull-mooring performance and vice versa can be assessed. The developed coupled analysis program is applied to Hywind spar design with 5 MW turbine. In case of spar-type floaters, the control strategy significantly influences the hull and mooring dynamics. If one of the control systems fails, the entire dynamic responses of FOWT can be significantly different. Therefore, it is important to maintain various control systems in a good operational condition. In this regard, the effects of failed blade pitch control system on FOWT performance including structural and dynamic responses of blades, tower, and floater are systematically investigated. Through this study, it is seen that the failure of one of the blade pitch control system can induce significant dynamic loadings on the other blades and the entire FOWT system. The developed technology and numerical tool are readily applicable to any types of floating wind farms in any combinations of irregular waves, dynamic winds, and steady currents.