Effectiveness enhancement of a cycloidal wind turbine by individual active control of blade motion

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6525, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Hwang, In Seong ^a   Lee, Yun Han ^a   Kim, Seung Jo ^a,b  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Flight Vehicle Research Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Active control of blade; Cycloidal wind turbine; Individual blade control; Optimal rotor design; Vertical axis wind turbine

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTROL OF BLADES; CYCLOIDAL WIND TURBINES; INDIVIDUAL BLADE CONTROLS; OPTIMAL ROTOR DESIGN; VERTICAL AXIS WIND TURBINES;

ELECTRIC LOADS; ELECTRIC POWER MEASUREMENT; MICROCONTROLLERS; POWER GENERATION; ROTORS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

WIND TURBINES;

EID: 35548997475     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.715623     Document Type: Conference Paper

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