Model predictive control of a wind turbine using short-term wind field predictions

Wind Energy

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 417-434

  Spencer, Martin D ^a   Stol, Karl A ^a   Unsworth, Charles P ^a   Cater, John E ^a   Norris, Stuart E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

feedforward; predictive control; preview control; wind preview

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC LOAD MANAGEMENT; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FORECASTING; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; WIND; WIND TURBINES;

ADVANCED CONTROLLER; FATIGUE LOAD REDUCTION; FEED-FORWARD; IMPROVE PERFORMANCE; PREDICTIVE CONTROL; PREDICTIVE CONTROLLER; PREVIEW CONTROL; SHORT TERM PREDICTION;

CONTROLLERS;

CONTROL SYSTEM; DESIGN METHOD; EQUIPMENT COMPONENT; FATIGUE; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; WIND PROFILE; WIND TURBINE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84876417271     PISSN: 10954244     EISSN: 10991824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/we.1501     Document Type: Article

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