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DOI: 10.1002/er.4382
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School of Computer and Communication
Summary
Engineering, University of Science and
Technology Beijing (USTB), Beijing Wind turbine (WT) power curves effectively reflect the generation performance
100083, China of WTs and depict the relationship between the wind speed and the WT power
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School of Data Science, City University of output. This paper aims at developing an effective method for learning the
Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon,
Hong Kong intrinsic representations of WT power curves, which are robust to external envi-
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Department of Industrial and Systems ronmental changes. Based on the obtained representations, WT generation per-
Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic formance is monitored. In the proposed approach, data of the supervisory
University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong
Kong
control and data acquisition (SCADA) system is employed to derive the repre-
sentations. Parametric models of WT power curves are developed using the
Correspondence two‐parameter and four‐parameter logic models. The parameters of these model
Long Wang, School of Computer and
Communication Engineering, University
are identified via Jaya algorithm. To detect the changes of WT power curve
of Science and Technology Beijing model parameters over different time, multivariate control charts are employed.
(USTB), Beijing 100083, China. The effectiveness of the proposed WT generation performance monitoring
Email: long.wang@ieee.org Shancheng
Jiang, Department of Industrial and approach is validated based on SCADA data collected from real commercial
Systems Engineering, The Hong Kong WTs.
Polytechnic University, Hung Hom,
Kowloon, Hong Kong. KEYWORDS
Email: shancheng.jiang@polyu.edu.hk
Jaya algorithm, multivariate approach, performance monitoring, power curve
Funding information
Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of
New and Renewable Research and Devel-
opment, Grant/Award Number:
Y807s61001; University of Science and
Technology Beijing—National Taipei
University of Technology Joint Research
Program, Grant/Award Number:
TW2018008; Fundamental Research
Funds for the Central Universities, Grant/
Award Number: 06500078; National Nat-
ural Science Foundation of China, Grant/
Award Number: 71473155
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FIGURE 1 The online monitoring procedures using the proposed approach [Colour figure can be viewed at wileyonlinelibrary.com]
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TABLE 1 Parameters recorded by the SCADA system where m denotes the gradient, c depicts the WTPC intercept,
and Pmax denotes the largest WT power output. The model
Name 1# Blade Angle
is fitted by the least square method through minimizing
Time 1# set pitch angle the summed square of residuals, presented as Equation 2:
Grid side frequency 2# blade angle N
Generator active power 2# set pitch angle D ¼ ∑ ðPe ðvi Þ−Pat ðiÞÞ2 (2)
i¼1
Generator speed 3# blade angle
where Pe(vi) is the fitted response value, and Pat(i) is the
Nacelle temperature 3# set pitch angle
actual power output. Based on Equations 1 and 2, the char-
Wind direction Temperature of gearbox lubricant oil
acteristics of WPTC could be depicted as (mt, ct), where t is
Wind speed The rate of available utilization the sequence number of samples.
The speed of wind and power output of WTs are considered P ¼ f ðv; θÞ ¼ a v: (3)
1 þ ne−τ
to develop WTPC models in this study, and thus the used
dataset can be depicted as X = {(P1, v1), (P2, v2), … , (PN, In Equation 3, θ = (a, m, n, τ) denoting the parameter set
vN)}, where Pi is the WT power output of the i‐th data sam- of the logistic model and θ determinates shapes of
ple, vi is the wind speed of the i‐th sample, and N denotes WTPCs. In this model, D also serves as the objective func-
the number of data samples. The data consist of totally 119 − τi
v
samples with 1‐day interval (each sample is a pile of dataset tion to be minimized, and Pe ðvi Þ ¼ a1 þ mev
− i
is the esti-
1þne τ
stored in a file, and the data in the period of 12 April to 13 mated power output. The constraints are shown as
April are lost). Different from the previous study using the follows in Equation 4:
2‐day interval,9 the 1‐day interval can capture more WTPC
amin < a < amax ; mmin < m < mmax
variations during the considered monitoring time period. : (4)
In addition, the cut‐in, rated, and cut‐out speeds (ie, nmin < n < nmax ; τ min < τ < τ max
vci, vr, and vco) of involved WTs are 3.0, 10.0, and
21.0 m/s separately. Data points with wind speed out of In order to obtain the optimally fitted parameter vector,
the range [cut‐in speed, cut‐out speed] are removed. Jaya algorithm is introduced to obtain the solution of this
optimization problem. Compared with other popular heu-
ristic search algorithms, including PSO algorithm and
4 | W I N D P O W E R CU R V E Genetic algorithm, Jaya algorithm provides the supreme
MODELING performance in both constraint and unconstraint bench-
mark problems,15,17-19 and objective functions of these
Two parametric models for WTPC modeling, the linear- problems demonstrate different characteristics. Algo-
ized segmented model and four‐parameter logistic model, rithm 1 illustrates the mechanism of Jaya algorithm.
have been discussed in detail in this section. As presented in Algorithm 1, the solution, parameter
vector θ, is updated according to Equation 5,
4.1 | Linearized segmented model θ′j;k;i ¼ θj;k;i þ r 1; j;i θj;best;i − θj;k;i
− r 2; j;i θj;worst;i − θj;k;i (5)
The dataset is divided into three subsets according to the
conventional WTPC, and the linearized segmented model
where θj, k, i denotes the value of the jth element in kth
is shown as follows9:
suitable solution at the ith iteration, θbest is the solution
8 with the minimum value of D, θworst is the solution with
>
< 0; v < vci ; v > vco
the maximum value of D, θ′j, k, i is the modified of θj, k,
P¼ mv þ c; vci < v < vr (1)
>
: i, and r1, j, i and r2, j, i are two randomly generated vari-
Pmax ; vr < v < vco ables within the interval [0, 1].
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Standard
Model Min Max Mean Deviation
Standard
Model Min Max Mean Deviation
1 N
MAEt ¼ ∑ jPet ðvi Þ − Pat ðiÞj: (7)
N i¼1
FIGURE 2 Phase 1 of linearized parameter vectors monitored with the T2 chart and generalized variance chart [Colour figure can be
viewed at wileyonlinelibrary.com]
FIGURE 3 Phase 2 of linearized parameter vectors monitored with the T2 chart and generalized variance chart [Colour figure can be
viewed at wileyonlinelibrary.com]
where μ0 and μ1 are the mean values of mt and ct; v0, v1, v2, In the linearized segmented model, the statistic of T2
and v3 are the mean values of at, mt, nt, and τt; σ02, σ12, control chart is computed as
σ22, and σ32 are the corresponding variances, while σ012,
σ022, …, σ322 are the covariances. T t 2 ¼ ðX t −U ÞT Σ1 −1 ðX t − U Þ: (10)
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In the logistic model, the statistic of T2 control chart is where b1 and b2 are obtained as follows:
computed as p
1
b1 ¼ p ∏ ðt − i Þ
T t 2 ¼ ðY t −V ÞT Σ1 −1 ðY t − V Þ: ðt−1Þ i¼1
" #
p p p
(11) 1
b2 ¼ ∏ ðt − iÞ ∏ ðt − j þ 2Þ − ∏ ðn − jÞ ;
The upper control limits (UCL) of Equations 10 and 11 ðt−1Þ2p i¼1 j¼1 j¼1
TABLE 6 The associated date of abnormal samples via the LIN- 5.2 | Monitoring results
EAR model
Because the fault log is only available during the time
Sample Date between 1 April and 14 June, parameter vectors of sample
13 2014/4/15 1 to sample 73 are monitored using the multivariate
51 2014/5/23 control charts.
As shown in Figure 2, samples 51, 55, and 60 of the linear
55 2014/5/27
model are considered to be anomalies. After removing these
60 2014/6/1
data points, the control limits are re‐calculated. It is observed
FIGURE 4 Phase 1 of logistic parameter vectors monitoring with the T2 chart and generalized variance chart [Colour figure can be viewed
at wileyonlinelibrary.com]
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FIGURE 5 Phase 2 of logistic parameter vectors monitoring with the T2 chart and generalized variance chart [Colour figure can be viewed
at wileyonlinelibrary.com]
that sample 13 is identified as abnormal in Figure 3. In TABLE 7 The associated date of abnormal samples via the
summary, the detected four anomalous samples (13, 51, logistic model
55, 60), and their corresponding date are listed in Table 6.
Sample Date Sample Date
As for parameter vectors obtained from the logistic
model, the Phase 1 results are presented in Figure 4, and 2 2014/4/2 20 2014/4/22
it is notable that more outliers are identified compared with 5 2014/4/3 23 2014/4/25
those of the linear model. As a result, samples 5, 6, 11, 15, 6 2014/4/6 36 2014/5/8
17, 20, and 42 are considered as anomalies. The detection 11 2014/4/13 38 2014/5/10
results of Phase 2 are shown in Figure 5. Samples 2, 23,
15 2014/4/17 42 2014/5/14
36, and 38 are considered as abnormal ones. All associated
dates of these anomalous samples are provided in Table 7. 17 2014/4/19
When comparing Tables 6 and 7, it is observed that con-
trol charts using the logistic model detect more anomalies TABLE 8 Manual examination results of the selected turbine
than those using the linearized model whilst the sequence Time Period Power Curve Analysis Results
numbers of detected samples are different. Moreover, with
1 April‐14 April Impaired
the visual inspection of power curves of selected WTs
(presented in Table 8), the control charts using the logistic 15 April‐19 April Scattered but slightly improved
model demonstrate better performance as the detected 20 April‐24 April Impaired
anomalies generally match the fault log. During the first 25 April‐30 April Scattered but slightly improved
malfunction period, four out of 11 outliers are identified 1 May‐9 May Significantly degraded
using the proposed approach. Although the performance
10 May‐11 May Scattered
of the WT is slightly improved during the next period, two
more anomalies are detected. The propose approach 12 May‐30 May Improved but slightly scattered
successfully monitors two abnormal WTPCs for the time 1 June Scattered
period from 20 April to 30 April. Overall, only one outlier 2 June‐14 June Improved
is undetected during the period of the WT degradation.
The control charts using the linear model fail to find a by using the linear model, the proposed approach is able
number of anomalies, especially during the remarkable to identify most of the abnormal WTPCs. However, the
degradation period. Compared with the detection results SCADA data are collected with an interval of 10 minutes
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