3 papers
eess.SY2022
Implementation of Advanced Wind Turbine Controllers for Scaled Turbine Testing in a Wind Tunnel
Michael Sinner, Vlaho Petrović, Lucy Y. Pao
Based on a series of two experimental campaigns testing advanced controllers on a scaled wind turbine operating in a wind tunnel, this contribution describes the overall experiment…
eess.SY2021
Control of a Floating Wind Turbine on a Novel Actuated Platform
David Stockhouse, Mandar Phadnis, Elenya Grant +3
Designing a floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT) controller requires solving engineering challenges not found for fixed-bottom turbines. This paper applies several methods from th…
eess.SY2021
Constrained Power Reference Control for Wind Turbines
Daniel S. Zalkind, Marco M. Nicotra, Lucy Y. Pao
The cost of wind energy can be reduced by controlling the power reference of a turbine to increase energy capture, while maintaining load and generator speed constraints. We apply…