Combining standard feedback controllers with feedforward blade pitch control for load mitigation in wind turbines

48th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting Including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Dunne, Fiona ^a   Pao, Lucy Y ^a   Wright, Alan D ^b   Jonkman, Bonnie ^b   Kelley, Neil ^b  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK CONTROL; FEEDFORWARD CONTROL; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; WIND; WIND TURBINES;

COLLECTIVE PITCH; COMBINED FEEDBACKS; COST OF ENERGIES; FEED-FORWARD CONTROLLERS; FEEDBACK CONTROLLER; INDIVIDUAL PITCH; INDUSTRY STANDARDS; STRUCTURAL LOADING;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 78649840585     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2010-250     Document Type: Conference Paper

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