Adjoint-based model predictive control for optimal energy extraction in waked wind farms

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 84, Issue , 2019, Pages 48-62

  Vali, Mehdi ^a   Petrović, Vlaho ^a   Boersma, Sjoerd ^b   van Wingerden, Jan Willem ^b   Pao, Lucy Y ^c   Kühn, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c University of Colorado   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjoint approach; Maximal energy extraction; Nonlinear model predictive control; Wake interactions; Wind farm control

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; CONTROLLERS; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM INTERCONNECTION; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; EXTRACTION; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; REAL TIME CONTROL; WAKES; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

ADJOINT APPROACH; ENERGY EXTRACTION; NONLINEAR MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; WAKE INTERACTIONS; WIND FARM;

MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL;

EID: 85057485886     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conengprac.2018.11.005     Document Type: Article

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