Adaptive control of a utility-scale wind turbine operating in Region 3

47th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Frost, Susan A ^a   Balas, Mark J ^b   Wright, Alan D ^c  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^c NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL; ADAPTIVE CONTROLLERS; COLLECTIVE PITCH; CONTROL OBJECTIVES; CONTROLLER PERFORMANCE; CONTROLS ADVANCED RESEARCH TURBINES; DIRECT MODEL; DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS; HIGH-FIDELITY SIMULATIONS; HORIZONTAL AXIS WIND TURBINES; NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY; OPERATING CONDITION; PITCH CONTROLLER; PLANT MODEL; ROBUSTNESS TO MODELING ERRORS; ROTATIONAL SPEED; SAFE OPERATION; SIMULATION MODEL; SPEED REGULATION; STEP DISTURBANCES; TURBINE BLADE; VARIABLE SPEED; WIND DISTURBANCE; WIND TURBINE ROTORS;

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL THEORY; CONTROLLERS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

MODEL REFERENCE ADAPTIVE CONTROL;

EID: 78549242305     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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