Optimal maintenance strategies for wind turbine systems under stochastic weather conditions

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 393-404

  Byon, Eunshin ^a   Ntaimo, Lewis ^a   Ding, Yu ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic programming; Partially observed Markov decision process; Random deterioration; Stochastic environment; Wind turbine operations and maintenance.

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE COST; CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; CRITICAL FACTORS; DETERIORATION PROCESS; IN-SITU; INFINITE HORIZONS; INFORMED DECISION; LEAD TIME; OPTIMAL MAINTENANCE; OPTIMAL POLICIES; OPTIMAL PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE; PARTIALLY OBSERVED MARKOV DECISION PROCESS; PHYSICAL CONDITIONS; PRODUCTION LOSS; REPAIR STRATEGY; RESEARCH OBJECTIVES; STOCHASTIC ENVIRONMENT; WEATHER CONDITIONS; WIND FARM; WIND TURBINE SYSTEMS;

DETERIORATION; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; MARKOV PROCESSES; METEOROLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; SENSORS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 77953121947     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2010.2046804     Document Type: Article

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