Imperial College London
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DrThulasiMylvaganam

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Aeronautics

Senior Lecturer in Control Engineering
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 5129t.mylvaganam

 
 
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221City and Guilds BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@inproceedings{Mylvaganam:2022:10.1109/CDC45484.2021.9682815,
author = {Mylvaganam, T and Sassano, M and Astolfi, A},
doi = {10.1109/CDC45484.2021.9682815},
pages = {2428--2433},
publisher = {IEEE},
title = {Nonlinear optimal control of a ballast-stabilized floating wind turbine viaexternally stabilised Hamiltonian dynamics},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CDC45484.2021.9682815},
year = {2022}
}
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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - We consider the problem of controlling a ballast-stabilized  offshore  wind  turbine.  We  formulate  an  optimal control  problem  with  the  objective  of  maximising  the  power generation  while  minimising  structural  fatigue  of  the  wind turbine.  Due  to  the  nonlinear  nature  of  the  model,  obtaining a  solution  to  the  above  control  task  poses  a  severe  challenge.Recalling  that  solutions  of  the  optimal  control  problem  are characterised by a certain (unstable) invariant manifold of the underlying Hamiltonian system, we demonstrate that nonlinear control strategies which approximate the solution of the optimalcontrol  problem  can  be  constructed  through  the  introduction of an externally stabilised Hamiltonian system. This observation enables the construction of an algorithm to compute (with rel-atively low computational complexity) an approximate solution of the optimal control problem, without ignoring nonlinearities in  the  control  design.  This  approach  has  several  benefits,  asdemonstrated  via  simulations  on  a  ballast-stabilized  offshore wind  turbine.
AU  - Mylvaganam,T
AU  - Sassano,M
AU  - Astolfi,A
DO  - 10.1109/CDC45484.2021.9682815
EP  - 2433
PB  - IEEE
PY  - 2022///
SP  - 2428
TI  - Nonlinear optimal control of a ballast-stabilized floating wind turbine viaexternally stabilised Hamiltonian dynamics
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CDC45484.2021.9682815
UR  - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9682815
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/92044
ER  -
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