Active aerodynamic blade distributed flap control design procedure for load reduction on the UpWind 5MW wind turbine

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Wilson, David G ^a   Resor, Brian R ^a   Berg, Dale E ^a   Barlas, Thanasis K ^b   Van Kuik, Gijs A M ^b  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC BLADES; AEROSERVOELASTIC SIMULATION; CONTROL DESIGN; CONTROL INPUTS; DEFLECTION RATES; DESIGN AND ANALYSIS; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL SYSTEM; DISTRIBUTED CONTROLLER; DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS; FLAP ACTUATORS; LARGE WIND TURBINES; LOAD REDUCTION; MODERN CONTROL; MULTIPLE SENSORS; MW WIND TURBINE; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; POWER CONDITIONS; SENSOR AND ACTUATORS; SPANWISE LOCATIONS; STATE-SPACE MODELS; SYSTEM IDENTIFICATIONS; TURBULENT WIND; WIND CONDITIONS;

ACTUATORS; AERODYNAMICS; AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; CONTROLLERS; DESIGN; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; FATIGUE DAMAGE; ROBUST CONTROL; SENSORS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

AEROSERVOELASTICITY;

EID: 78649963698     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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