Data-driven Model Predictive Control Method for DFIG-based Wind Farm to Provide Primary Frequency Regulation Service

Abstract: As wind power penetration increases, the wind farms are required by newly released grid codes to provide frequency regulation service. The most critical challenge is how to formulate the dynamic model of wind farm for dynamic control, since it is essentially is nonlinear and there are huge amount of parameters to be maintained frequently. This paper proposes a data-driven model predictive control (data-driven MPC) method to make wind farms participate primary frequency regulation. In this method,a specialized dynamic mode decomposition (SDMD) algorithm is developed, which can linearly approximate the dynamics of wind farm from measurements based on Koopman operator theory.Compared with the existing extended dynamic mode decomposition (EDMD) method,this tailored SDMD has two advantages: 1) fully capturing the nonlinear transients of wind turbine dynamics with good accuracy under a wide range of working conditions; 2) much less computational burden with model dimensionality reduction. Based on the recursively updated linear dynamic model, a model predictive control solution is implemented. The simulation results show this model-free solution can dynamically optimize wind turbine generators' active power to track the frequency response requirement from system operator and minimize the rotor speed distortion.