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Open-source controller for wind and hybrid plants

Home Page: https://nrel.github.io/wind-hybrid-open-controller/

License: Apache License 2.0

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Wind Hybrid Open Controller

The Wind Hybrid Open Controller (WHOC) is a python-based tool for real-time plant-level wind farm control and wind-based hybrid plant control. WHOC will primarily be run in simulation, although we intend that it could be used for physical plants in future.

WHOC will provide simple farm-level (and hybrid plant-level) controls such as wake steering control, spatial filtering/consensus, active power control, and coordinated control of hybrid power plant assets; and create an entry point for the development of more advanced controllers.

WHOC will interface with various simulation testbeds and lower level controllers, including:

WHOC controllers will also call on design tools such as FLORIS.

Documentation for WHOC can be found on nrel.github.io

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wind-hybrid-open-controller's Issues

FLASC dependency in LookupBasedWakeSteeringController

As noted in #31 , there are currently dependency conflicts between FLASC and FLORIS. The only reason that FLASC is required in WHOC is for the LookupBasedWakeSteeringController.

Possible solutions:

Disable the LookupBasedWakeSteeringController and remove FLASC dependencies (#31 ); then reinstate them when FLASC has been brought up to speed with Floris v4
Implement a local solution for get_yaw_angles_interpolant, which is the only functionality imported from FLASC, and make the removal of the dependency on FLASC permanent.

Realign with renamed AMR-Wind stand-in

Recent changes to Hercules changed the name of the stand-in version of AMR-Wind from "dummy AMR-Wind" to "AMR-Wind standin". The code in the simple_yaw_control_amrstandin example should be updated to reflect this.

As it stands, example does not run.

Consensus/spatial averaging

Build out tests for base architecture

Add tests for controller base and interfaces, as not done in #10

Add disclaimers to all files.

As is done in FLORIS, etc.

Incorporate functionality from wfc_framework

Establish zeroMQ connection in WHOC

Test that this can be used to send and receive signals from two or more separate ROSCO instances.

Depending on ROSCO implementation, may not need to spawn its own server; can simply inherit from ROSCO's base server class.

Implement wake steering controller

Implement a wake steering controller and provide example usage on FLORIS standin in Hercules

Add documentation page on nrel.github.io

Add ruff linting, formatting and pre-commit

Following the chosen conventions of FLORIS and FLASC, include into Hercules (when it is a good time, no rush), ruff linting, formatting and pre-commit hooks

Advanced MPC-based wake steering control

Investigate direct helics -> zeroMQ conversion

So that WHOC can communicate with a zeroMQ-based ROSCO agent by sending helics commands (i.e., WHOC does not need to import both helics and zeroMQ)

Change dependent versioning to semantic versioning using the compatible release specifier

Improve dependencies to use compatible release specifier such that the dependencies won't go up a major version unless intentionally changed in an update to this repo. This is to avoid breaks due to API changes. Info on compatible release specifier:

https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/version-specifiers/#id4

Implement power setpoint controller

Use controls implemented in A2E2G

Build out tests for exisiting code

Placeholders exist for most, but would like to bulk them out.

New Measurements returned HerculesActuatorDiskInterface

Wind speeds and yaw angles would be helpful. Note that while the control actions are yaw set points, and for a floris interface only yaw offsets are stored, that yaw offsets computed based on current wind directions will differ from the yaw offsets set for the last time step's wind directions.