Phasor extremum seeking and its application in Kaplan turbine control

Abstract

The Combinator is an important part in Kaplan turbine control. It ensures that the turbine will operate in an optimum way, in terms of maximum efficiency of the plant. This work suggests a new sinusoidal perturbation based extremum seeking algorithm based on the phasor of the output. We propose to use this algorithm for generating the required data to build and correct the combinator. Simulations are presented showing the applicability of the proposed methods.