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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 2021
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2019
Uptake Technologies, Inc., Chicago, IL (US);
Kevin Zen, Chicago, IL (US);
Benedict Augustine, Arlington Heights, IL (US);
Uptake Technologies, Inc., Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A computing system is configured to detect irregular yawing at wind turbines. To this end, the computing system (i) for each respective turbine of an identified cluster of wind turbines: (a) obtains yaw-activity data indicative of the respective turbine's yaw activity during a window of time, and (b) based on obtained yaw-activity data, derives a yaw-activity-measure dataset having measures of the respective turbine's yaw activity during time intervals within the window of time, (ii) based on the respective yaw-activity-measure datasets for the turbines in the cluster, derives a cluster-level yaw-activity-measure dataset, (iii) evaluates the respective yaw-activity-measure dataset for one or more turbines in the cluster as compared to the cluster-level yaw-activity-measure dataset, (iv) based on the evaluation, identifies at least one turbine of the cluster that exhibited irregular yaw activity, and (v) transmits, to an output device, a notification of the irregular yaw activity at the at least one turbine.