Automatic controller tuning using a  zeroth-order optimization algorithm

Zalkind, Daniel S.; Dall'Anese, Emiliano; Pao, Lucy Y.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-5-1579-2020

Articles | Volume 5, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-5-1579-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-5-1579-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 5, issue 4

Research article

|

17 Nov 2020

Research article |

| 17 Nov 2020

Automatic controller tuning using a zeroth-order optimization algorithm

Daniel S. Zalkind, Emiliano Dall'Anese, and Lucy Y. Pao

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RC1: 'Referee comments', Alan Wai Hou Lio, 22 Apr 2020
- AC1: 'Reply to Referee 1', Daniel Zalkind, 05 Jun 2020
RC2: 'Review', Luca Sartori, 28 Apr 2020
- AC2: 'Reply to Referee 2', Daniel Zalkind, 05 Jun 2020

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Daniel Zalkind on behalf of the Authors (05 Jun 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (27 Jul 2020) by Katherine Dykes

RR by Alan Wai Hou Lio (07 Aug 2020)

ED: Publish as is (24 Aug 2020) by Katherine Dykes

ED: Publish as is (24 Aug 2020) by Jakob Mann (Chief editor)

AR by Daniel Zalkind on behalf of the Authors (31 Aug 2020) Manuscript

Short summary

New wind turbine designs require updated control parameters, which should be optimal in terms of the performance measures that drive hardware design. We show how a zeroth-order optimization algorithm can randomly generate control parameters, use simulation results to estimate the gradient of the parameter space, and find an optimal set of those parameters. We then apply this automatic controller tuning procedure to three problems in wind turbine control.