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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2014
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Pranav Agarwal, Guilderland, NY (US);
Jigar Jayesh Shah, Glenville, NY (US);
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and a system for managing loads on a wind turbine are provided. The computer-implemented method is implemented using a processor coupled to a memory device. The method includes determining a first moment of a wind load acting about a first axis of a rotor of the wind turbine, determining a second moment of a wind load acting about a second axis of a rotor of the wind turbine, and determining a resultant moment of the first moment and the second moment. The method also includes generating an error signal indicating a difference between the resultant moment and a predetermined moment level threshold signal and generating, by the processor, a first activation signal over a range of the generated error signal between a first zero activation signal level and a first full activation signal level.