Robust and distributed control of a smart blade

Wind Energy

Volumn 13, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 103-116

  Rice, Justin K ^a   Verhaegen, Michel ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Distributed control; Feedback control; Load alleviation; Robustness; Smart blade

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; ROBUST CONTROL; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLOSED LOOP STABILITY; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; LOAD ALLEVIATION; MODELING AND COMPUTATION; ROBUST CONTROL ANALYSIS; ROBUST CONTROL TECHNIQUES; ROBUST FEEDBACK CONTROLLERS; SMART BLADES;

CONTROLLERS;

CONTROL SYSTEM; LOADING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; VIBRATION; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 77950616874     PISSN: 10954244     EISSN: 10991824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/we.362     Document Type: Article

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