Advanced wind turbine controllers attenuate loads when upwind velocity measurements are inputs

Collection of Technical Papers - 44th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting

Volumn 10, Issue , 2006, Pages 7214-7226

  Maureen Hand, M ^a,c   Wright, Alan D ^a   Fingersh, Lee J ^a   Harris, Michael ^b,d  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b QINETIQ   (United Kingdom)

^c ASME   (United States)

^d Optronics Department   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTURBANCE ACCOMMODATING CONTROLLER (DAC); ENERGY CAPTURE; FATIGUE LOADS; TURBINE CONTROLLERS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ROTORS; SPEED CONTROL; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

WIND TURBINES;

EID: 34250694107     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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