Documentation of WHOC and ROSCO for super controller in FAST.Farm #3043
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| FAST.Farm does not include modules for individual turbine controllers |
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| FAST.Farm does not include modules for individual turbine controllers | ||
| or farm-level controller (super controllers) and relies on |
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| FAST.Farm does not include modules for individual turbine controllers | ||
| or farm-level controller (super controllers) and relies on | ||
| separately compiled routines for them. | ||
| FAST.Farm defers to the OpenFAST model of individual turbine for turbine controller. |
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| The controller is specified in the ServoDyn module of OpenFAST. | ||
| OpenFAST allows for the use of bladed-style controllers in DLL format. | ||
| Tools like `Reference Open Source Controller` (`ROSCO <https://github.com/NREL/ROSCO>`_) | ||
| can be used to design and integrate turbine controller in DLL format. |
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Add ", if the user does not already have their own controller" before the period.
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| Farm-level super controller can be designed and implemented using external tools. | ||
| `Wind-Hybrid-Open-Controller` (`WHOC <https://github.com/NREL/wind-hybrid-open-controller>`_) tool |
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| `Wind-Hybrid-Open-Controller` (`WHOC <https://github.com/NREL/wind-hybrid-open-controller>`_) tool | ||
| provides for rapid design of common farm-level controllers such as wake steering | ||
| control, spatial filtering/consensus and active power control etc. | ||
| WHOC includes examples the design of a wake steering controller and implementation on |
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| a small farm using FAST.Farm. | ||
| The `Reference Open Source Controller` (`ROSCO <https://github.com/NREL/ROSCO>`_) | ||
| also has wind farm control capability. | ||
| It gives user low-level access to various turbine measurements and offsets, and |
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| provides for rapid design of common farm-level controllers such as wake steering | ||
| control, spatial filtering/consensus and active power control etc. | ||
| WHOC includes examples the design of a wake steering controller and implementation on | ||
| a small farm using FAST.Farm. |
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Presumably, WHOC interacts with ROSCO for individual turbine control?
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Not ready to merge yet (Need to wait for release of WHOC v0.6)
Feature or improvement description
Documentation update to include some description of external tools that can be used to design super controllers for FAST.Farm.
Impacted areas of the software
FAST.Farm