Comparison of Wind Turbine LQG controllers designed to alleviate fatigue loads

2010 8th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, ICCA 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1502-1507

  Nourdine, S ^a,b   Camblong, H ^a,b   Vechiu, I ^a   Tapia, G ^b  

^a Technopôle Izarbel   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL MODEL; CONTROL OBJECTIVES; CONTROL VARIABLE; DRIVE TRAIN; ELECTROMAGNETIC TORQUES; FATIGUE LOADS; FULL-LOAD; HORIZONTAL AXIS WIND TURBINES; LINEAR QUADRATIC GAUSSIAN CONTROLLERS; LQG CONTROLLER; MINER'S RULE; OPTIMIZATION CRITERIA; PITCH ANGLE; RAINFLOW; SIMPLE BEHAVIORS; VARIABLE SPEED;

DYNAMIC LOADS; OPTIMIZATION; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS; TOWERS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 77957886541     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCA.2010.5524385     Document Type: Conference Paper

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