Cooperative Control of Wind Farms under Maintenance Constraints

In this paper, we incorporate wake steering models into a multiobjective wind farm model for improving power extraction, specifically under the framework of handling maintenance of individual turbines. We expand upon a previous heuristic method to find axial induction factors for the far-field wake problem and using the results of the algorithm as parameters for a model predictive control framework. Simulation results are discussed, demonstrating improved power output over algorithms that do not account for maintenance.