Patents by Inventor Bernardo Adrian Movsichoff
Bernardo Adrian Movsichoff has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11136961Abstract: A method for optimizing power production of a wind turbine includes determining at least one operational constraint for the wind turbine. The method also includes operating the wind turbine with at least one operational constraint being activated. Further, the method includes varying a tip speed ratio for the wind turbine while the at least one operational constraint is activated so as to maximize a power coefficient of the wind turbine.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2017Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Venkata Krishna Vadlamudi, Bernardo Adrian Movsichoff, Akshay Ambekar, Arne Koerber
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Patent number: 10473088Abstract: The present subject matter is directed to a system and method for operating a wind turbine so as to increase power production by utilizing variable tip-speed-ratio control. In one embodiment, the method includes defining a first operating region associated with an unsaturated torque range and a second operating region associated with a saturated torque range. Further, the method includes monitoring a torque output of the wind turbine. The method also includes continuously adjusting a tip-speed-ratio set point of the wind turbine so as to operate the wind turbine along a torque constraint boundary of the first and second operating regions.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2015Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Bernardo Adrian Movsichoff
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Publication number: 20180347543Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a method for optimizing power production of a wind turbine. The method includes determining at least one operational constraint for the wind turbine. The method also includes operating the wind turbine with at least one operational constraint being activated. Further, the method includes varying a tip speed ratio for the wind turbine while the at least one operational constraint is activated so as to maximize a power coefficient of the wind turbine.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2017Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventors: Venkata Krishna Vadlamudi, Bernardo Adrian Movsichoff, Akshay Ambekar, Arne Koerber
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Patent number: 9733625Abstract: A system for operating a train having one or more locomotive consists with each locomotive consist comprising one or more locomotives, the system including a locator element to determine a location of the train, a track characterization element to provide information about a track, a sensor for measuring an operating condition of the locomotive consist, a processor operable to receive information from the locator element, the track characterizing element, and the sensor, and an algorithm embodied within the processor having access to the information to create a trip plan that optimizes performance of the locomotive consist in accordance with one or more operational criteria for the train.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2006Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Ajith Kuttannair Kumar, Glenn Robert Shaffer, Paul Kenneth Houpt, Bernardo Adrian Movsichoff, David So Keung Chan, Sukru Alper Eker
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Patent number: 9631606Abstract: The present subject matter is directed to a system and method for dynamically controlling a wind turbine. The method includes operating the wind turbine based on a thrust set point and a speed set point. A next step includes determining a desired change in actual speed of the wind turbine in response to control actuations starting from an instantaneous operating point. The method also includes determining a desired change in thrust of the wind turbine in response to control actuations starting from the instantaneous operating point. Next, the method determines at least one parameter set point that achieves the desired change in speed and the desired change in thrust and controls the wind turbine based on the parameter set point so as to maintain the actual thrust and the actual speed of the wind turbine within a certain tolerance of the thrust set point and the speed set point, thereby regulating loads acting on the wind turbine while simultaneously maintaining optimal or near optimal power output.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2014Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Robert Peter Slack, Brandon Shane Gerber, Thomas Franklin Perley, Bernardo Adrian Movsichoff
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Patent number: 9623884Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for controlling movement of a train including a plurality of locomotives along a route. In one example, the method comprises, generating a first plan profile, the first plan profile including synchronous settings for the locomotives over a route, and generating a second plan profile based on the first plan profile, the second plan profile including independent settings for the locomotives over at least one region within the route. The method may further comprise, operating the locomotives based in the first and/or second plan profiles. In another example, the method comprises, generating a plan profile with fully independent settings for the locomotives over the entire route, the fully independent settings based on cost function coefficients of each locomotive.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2010Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: James D. Brooks, Ajith Kuttannair Kumar, Bernardo Adrian Movsichoff, Ramu Chandra
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Publication number: 20170058871Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a system and method for mitigating ice throw from one or more rotor blades of a wind turbine during operation. The method includes monitoring one or more ice-related parameters of the wind turbine. Thus, the ice-related parameters are indicative of ice accumulation on one or more of the rotor blades. In response to detecting ice accumulation, the method also includes implementing an ice protection control strategy. More specifically, the ice protection control strategy includes determining a yaw position of the wind turbine and determining at least one of a power set point or a speed set point for the wind turbine based on the yaw position.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2015Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventors: Bernardo Adrian Movsichoff, Ejaz J. Sabir, Karthikeyan Appuraj, Kunal Vora, Joerg Middendorf, Gert Torbohm
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Publication number: 20160265509Abstract: The present subject matter is directed to a system and method for operating a wind turbine so as to increase power production by utilizing variable tip-speed-ratio control. In one embodiment, the method includes defining a first operating region associated with an unsaturated torque range and a second operating region associated with a saturated torque range. Further, the method includes monitoring a torque output of the wind turbine. The method also includes continuously adjusting a tip-speed-ratio set point of the wind turbine so as to operate the wind turbine along a torque constraint boundary of the first and second operating regions.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2015Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventor: Bernardo Adrian Movsichoff
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Publication number: 20150292483Abstract: The present subject matter is directed to a system and method for dynamically controlling a wind turbine. The method includes operating the wind turbine based on a thrust set point and a speed set point. A next step includes determining a desired change in actual speed of the wind turbine in response to control actuations starting from an instantaneous operating point. The method also includes determining a desired change in thrust of the wind turbine in response to control actuations starting from the instantaneous operating point. Next, the method determines at least one parameter set point that achieves the desired change in speed and the desired change in thrust and controls the wind turbine based on the parameter set point so as to maintain the actual thrust and the actual speed of the wind turbine within a certain tolerance of the thrust set point and the speed set point, thereby regulating loads acting on the wind turbine while simultaneously maintaining optimal or near optimal power output.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2014Publication date: October 15, 2015Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Robert Peter Slack, Brandon Shane Gerber, Thomas Franklin Perley, Bernardo Adrian Movsichoff
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Patent number: 8504226Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for controlling movement of a train including a plurality of locomotives along a route. In one example, the method comprises, generating a first plan profile, the first plan profile including synchronous settings for the locomotives over a route, and generating a second plan profile based on the first plan profile, the second plan profile including independent settings for the locomotives over at least one region within the route. The method may further comprise, operating the locomotives based in the first and/or second plan profiles. In another example, the method comprises, generating a plan profile with fully independent settings for the locomotives over the entire route, the fully independent settings based on cost function coefficients of each locomotive.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2010Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: James D. Brooks, Ajith Kuttannair Kumar, Bernardo Adrian Movsichoff, Ramu Chandra
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Publication number: 20130179128Abstract: A system for selecting a representative sensor set of a power plant is provided including a computer. The computer has a memory. The memory stores a list of all feasible sensor sets, and at least one variable that is used to calculate a local minimum value of a cost function and a cost function value. The computer includes control logic for executing an algorithm. The computer includes control logic for selecting a proposed sensor set from the list of all feasible sensor sets. The proposed sensor set is based on a specific iteration of the algorithm. The control module includes control logic for determining if the system is observable using the proposed sensor set. The control module includes control logic for determining if the cost function value is less than the local minimum value of the cost function, if the system is observable using the proposed sensor set.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2012Publication date: July 11, 2013Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Maria Cecilia Mazzaro, Bernardo Adrian Movsichoff, Avinash Vinayak Taware
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Patent number: 8112252Abstract: A method of verifying operation of at least one wind turbine sensor includes dynamically defining a neighborhood of neighbor wind turbines for a first wind turbine, each neighbor wind turbine including at least one sensor. The method also includes receiving data from at least one neighbor wind turbine sensor and determining a status of at least one sensor of the first wind turbine using the data received from the neighbor wind turbine sensor.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2010Date of Patent: February 7, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Maria Cecilia Mazzaro, Mark Edward Cardinal, Bernardo Adrian Movsichoff, Avinash Taware, Thomas Dinjus
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Publication number: 20110118914Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for controlling movement of a train including a plurality of locomotives along a route. In one example, the method comprises, generating a first plan profile, the first plan profile including synchronous settings for the locomotives over a route, and generating a second plan profile based on the first plan profile, the second plan profile including independent settings for the locomotives over at least one region within the route. The method may further comprise, operating the locomotives based in the first and/or second plan profiles. In another example, the method comprises, generating a plan profile with fully independent settings for the locomotives over the entire route, the fully independent settings based on cost function coefficients of each locomotive.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2010Publication date: May 19, 2011Inventors: James D. BROOKS, Ajith Kuttannair Kumar, Bernardo Adrian Movsichoff, Ramu Chandra
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Publication number: 20110118899Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for controlling movement of a train including a plurality of locomotives along a route. In one example, the method comprises, generating a first plan profile, the first plan profile including synchronous settings for the locomotives over a route, and generating a second plan profile based on the first plan profile, the second plan profile including independent settings for the locomotives over at least one region within the route. The method may further comprise, operating the locomotives based in the first and/or second plan profiles. In another example, the method comprises, generating a plan profile with fully independent settings for the locomotives over the entire route, the fully independent settings based on cost function coefficients of each locomotive.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2010Publication date: May 19, 2011Inventors: James D. Brooks, Ajith Kuttannair Kumar, Bernardo Adrian Movsichoff, Ramu Chandra
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Publication number: 20110098975Abstract: A method of verifying operation of at least one wind turbine sensor includes dynamically defining a neighborhood of neighbor wind turbines for a first wind turbine, each neighbor wind turbine including at least one sensor. The method also includes receiving data from at least one neighbor wind turbine sensor and determining a status of at least one sensor of the first wind turbine using the data received from the neighbor wind turbine sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2010Publication date: April 28, 2011Inventors: Maria Cecilia Mazzaro, Mark Edward Cardinal, Bernardo Adrian Movsichoff, Avinash Taware, Thomas Dinjus