Using particle filters to track wind turbine wakes for improved wind plant controls

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 3734-3741

  Fleming, P A ^a   Gebraad, P M O ^b   Churchfield, M J ^a   Van Wingerden, J W ^b   Scholbrock, A K ^a   Moriarty, P J ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Control applications; Power systems

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLERS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; STANDBY POWER SYSTEMS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TARGET TRACKING; WIND POWER;

CONTROL APPLICATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; PARTICLE FILTER; PLANT PERFORMANCE; STOCHASTIC SETTINGS; TURBINE CONTROLLERS; WAKE MEANDERING; WIND TURBINE WAKES;

WAKES;

EID: 84905677012     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ACC.2014.6859225     Document Type: Conference Paper

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