Model predictive control of trailing edge flaps on a wind turbine blade

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 4398-4403

  Castaignet, Damien ^a   Poulsen, Niels K ^b   Buhl, Thomas ^b   Wedel Heinen, Jens Jakob ^a  

^a VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A S   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST FUNCTIONS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; KALMAN FILTERS; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; TURBINE COMPONENTS; WIND TURBINES;

AERODYNAMIC MODELING; BLADE STRUCTURES; DESIGN MODELING; DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; FATIGUE LOAD REDUCTION; FREQUENCY WEIGHTED; TRAILING EDGE FLAPS; WIND TURBINE BLADES;

TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

EID: 80053164025     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/acc.2011.5991111     Document Type: Conference Paper

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