| The purpose of this study is to apply active vibration control technique numerically for suppressing the vibrational level of a horizontal axis wind turbine blade. Two systems are studied to apply active vibration control on the wind turbine blade model, the first is a uniform cantilever beam and the other system is a non-uniform (tapered) cantilever beam. A single piezoelectric actuator and sensor are bonded on the upper and lower surface of the systems, respectively. The vibration analysis and dynamic characteristics of smart systems are obtained using approximate analytical methods. The entire structure is modeled in the state space form using the state space method, generalized coordinates and piezoelectric theory. Two types of controllers are designed to study the performance of the piezoelectric active controller. The first is a Proportional-Derivative (PD) controller and the other type is a Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR). The Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) demonstrates better results for vibration suppression. The MATLAB code Simulink is used to simulate the different cases. |
