Mechanical Vibration Monitoring of Vertical Axis Wind Turbines

The article presents a system for monitoring mechanical vibrations from wind turbines with a vertical axis of rotation, which are located on the roof of the building F of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czestochowa University of Technology. To determine the nature of mechanical vibrations, vibration sensors were used along with the ARDIUNO microcontroller, mounted on the supporting structures of the wind turbines in the building. The system software was developed in the C++ development environment. A recursive Kalman Filter was used to filter signals from vibration sensors. The developed software enables the visualization, analysis and archiving of measurement data.