Nonlinear, optimal control of a wind turbine generator

IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 468-478

  Vepa, Ranjan ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Control system; induction generators; Kalman filtering; nonlinear estimation; nonlinear filters; simulation; state estimation; tracking; tracking filters; wind power generation

Indexed keywords

INDUCTION GENERATOR; KALMAN-FILTERING; NON-LINEAR ESTIMATION; NONLINEAR FILTER; SIMULATION; TRACKING; TRACKING FILTERS;

ALGORITHMS; ASYNCHRONOUS GENERATORS; CONTROL; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; ESTIMATION; OPTIMIZATION; PUMPS; TURBOGENERATORS; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

NONLINEAR ANALYSIS;

EID: 79957511275     PISSN: 08858969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEC.2010.2087380     Document Type: Article

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