In this paper, we propose a power-setpoint based Extremum Seeking Control (ESC) framework for model-free Region-2 controls for maximizing the power capture for turbine and farm operation, without dependency on wind measurement. As a major obstacle for retrofitting wind turbine/farm controls is that only the power setpoint is accessible, the power-setpoint based ESC framework is proposed with a back-calculation anti-windup structure. If increasing the power demand cannot further increase actual power output, the anti-windup structure automatically holds the power demand setpoint. For farm operation, the proposed method is integrated into the Delay-compensated Nested-loop ESC. The proposed method is evaluated by simulations on the SimWindFarm platform for both single-turbine and farm operation scenarios. The results demonstrate the capability of tracking the achievable optimum power for turbine and farm operation, with only reasonable increase of some loads. The proposed method promises an easy-to-implement model-free retrofitting control strategy for enhancing wind energy capture.
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