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Run a Genetic Algorithm to optimize a wind farm layout

Source: R/genetic_algorithm.R
genetic_algorithm.Rd

Run a Genetic Algorithm to optimize the layout of wind turbines on a given area. The algorithm works with a fixed amount of turbines, a fixed rotor radius and a mean wind speed value for every incoming wind direction.

Usage

genetic_algorithm(
  Polygon1,
  GridMethod,
  Rotor,
  n,
  fcrR,
  referenceHeight,
  RotorHeight,
  SurfaceRoughness,
  Proportionality,
  iteration,
  mutr,
  vdirspe,
  topograp,
  elitism,
  nelit,
  selstate,
  crossPart1,
  trimForce,
  Projection,
  sourceCCL,
  sourceCCLRoughness,
  weibull,
  weibullsrc,
  Parallel,
  numCluster,
  verbose = FALSE,
  plotit = FALSE
)

Arguments

Polygon1

The considered area as SpatialPolygon, SimpleFeature Polygon or coordinates as matrix/data.frame

GridMethod

Should the polygon be divided into rectangular or hexagonal grid cells? The default is "Rectangular" grid. Hexagonal grids are computed when assigning "h" or "hexagon" to this input variable.

Rotor

The rotor radius in meter

n

The amount of turbines

fcrR

A numeric value used for grid spacing. Default is 5

referenceHeight

The height at which the incoming wind speeds were measured. Default is RotorHeight

RotorHeight

The height of the turbine hub

SurfaceRoughness

A surface roughness length in meters. With the terrain effect model, a surface roughness is calculated for every grid cell using the elevation and land cover data. Default is 0.3

Proportionality

A numeric value used for the grid calculation, as it determines the percentage a grid cell must overlay the area. Default is 1

iteration

The number of iterations. Default is 20

mutr

A numeric mutation rate. Default is 0.008

vdirspe

A data.frame containing the wind speeds, directions and probabilities. See windata_format.

topograp

Boolean value, which indicates if the terrain effect model should be enabled or not. Default is FALSE

elitism

Boolean value, which indicates whether elitism should be activated or not. Default is TRUE

nelit

If elitism is TRUE, this input determines the amount of individuals in the elite group. Default is 7

selstate

Determines which selection method is used, "FIX" selects a constant percentage and "VAR" selects a variable percentage, depending on the development of the fitness values. Default is "FIX"

crossPart1

Determines which crossover method is used, "EQU" divides the genetic code at equal intervals and "RAN" divides the genetic code at random locations. Default is "EQU"

trimForce

If TRUE the algorithm will use a probabilistic approach to correct the windfarms to the desired amount of turbines. If FALSE the adjustment will be random. Default is FALSE

Projection

A spatial reference system. Depending on your PROJ-version, it should either be a numeric `EPSG-code` or a `Proj4-string`. Default is EPSG:3035

sourceCCL

The path to the Corine Land Cover raster (.tif). Only required when the terrain effect model is activated.

sourceCCLRoughness

The source to the adapted Corine Land Cover legend as .csv file. Only required when terrain effect model is activated. As default a .csv file within this package (~/extdata) is taken that was already adapted manually.

weibull

A boolean value that specifies whether to take Weibull parameters into account. If TRUE, the wind speed values of vdirspe are ignored. The algorithm will calculate the mean wind speed for every wind turbine according to the Weibull parameters. Default is FALSE

weibullsrc

A list of Weibull parameter rasters, where the first list item must be the shape parameter raster `k` and the second item must be the scale parameter raster `a` of the Weibull distribution. If no list is given, then rasters included in the package are used instead, which currently only cover Austria. This variable is only used if weibull = TRUE.

Parallel

A boolean value, indicating whether parallel processing should be used. The *parallel* and *doParallel* packages are used for parallel processing. Default is FALSE

numCluster

If Parallel is TRUE, this variable defines the number of clusters to be used. Default is 2

verbose

If TRUE it will print information for every generation. Default is FALSE

plotit

If TRUE it will plot the best windfarm of every generation. Default is FALSE

Value

The result is a matrix with aggregated values per generation; the best individual regarding energy and efficiency per generation, some fuzzy control variables per generation, a list of all fitness values per generation, the amount of individuals after each process, a matrix of all energy, efficiency and fitness values per generation, the selection and crossover parameters, a matrix with the generational difference in maximum and mean energy output, a matrix with the given inputs, a dataframe with the wind information, the mutation rate per generation and a matrix with all tested wind farm layouts.

Details

A terrain effect model can be included in the optimization process. Therefore, a digital elevation model will be downloaded automatically via the elevatr::get_elev_raster function. A land cover raster can also downloaded automatically from the EEA-website, or the path to a raster file can be passed to sourceCCL. The algorithm uses an adapted version of the Raster legend ("clc_legend.csv"), which is stored in the package directory ~/inst/extdata. To use other values for the land cover roughness lengths, insert a column named "Rauhigkeit_z" to the .csv file, assign a surface roughness length to all land cover types. Be sure that all rows are filled with numeric values and save the file with ";" separation. Assign the path of the file to the input variable sourceCCLRoughness of this function.

See also

Other Genetic Algorithm Functions: crossover(), fitness(), init_population(), mutation(), selection(), trimton()

Examples

if (FALSE) {
## Create a random rectangular shapefile
library(sf)

Polygon1 <- sf::st_as_sf(sf::st_sfc(
  sf::st_polygon(list(cbind(
    c(4498482, 4498482, 4499991, 4499991, 4498482),
    c(2668272, 2669343, 2669343, 2668272, 2668272)
  ))),
  crs = 3035
))

## Create a uniform and unidirectional wind data.frame and plot the
## resulting wind rose
data.in <- data.frame(ws = 12, wd = 0)
windrosePlot <- plot_windrose(
  data = data.in, spd = data.in$ws,
  dir = data.in$wd, dirres = 10, spdmax = 20
)

## Runs an optimization run for 20 iterations with the
## given shapefile (Polygon1), the wind data.frame (data.in),
## 12 turbines (n) with rotor radii of 30m (Rotor) and rotor height of 100m.
result <- genetic_algorithm(
  Polygon1 = Polygon1,
  n = 12,
  vdirspe = data.in,
  Rotor = 30,
  RotorHeight = 100
)
plot_windfarmGA(result = result, Polygon1 = Polygon1)
}