Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Wind turbine control system with decentralized voting
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Application No.: US14008666Application Date: 2012-03-28
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Publication No.: US09670907B2Publication Date: 2017-06-06
- Inventor: John Bengtson , Victor Donescu , Philip Carne Kjær , Kenneth Skaug
- Applicant: John Bengtson , Victor Donescu , Philip Carne Kjær , Kenneth Skaug
- Applicant Address: DK Aarhus N
- Assignee: VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S
- Current Assignee: VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S
- Current Assignee Address: DK Aarhus N
- Agency: Patterson + Sheridan, LLP
- Priority: DK201170325 20110624
- International Application: PCT/DK2012/050094 WO 20120328
- International Announcement: WO2012/130244 WO 20121004
- Main IPC: F03D7/00
- IPC: F03D7/00 ; F03D11/00 ; F03D7/04 ; G05B9/03 ; F03D17/00

Abstract:
The present invention relates to a fault-tolerant control system for a wind turbine comprising a plurality of controllable wind turbine components, the control system comprising control means for generating a replica of essentially concurrent set-point values, a data communication network for transmitting the replica of essentially concurrent set-point values to the plurality of wind turbine components, and a plurality of decentralized voting means being arranged so that a decentralized voting means is assigned to each wind turbine component, each decentralized voting means being adapted to select one set-point value out of the replica of set-point values. The present invention further relates to a wind turbine and to an associated method.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140086723A1 WIND TURBINE CONTROL SYSTEM WITH DECENTRALIZED VOTING Public/Granted day:2014-03-27
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