The growing trends in wind energy technology are motivating the researchers to work in this
area with the aim towards the optimization of the energy extraction from the wind and the …

The objective of this paper is to compare five different generator systems for wind turbines,
namely the doubly-fed induction generator with three-stage gearbox (DFIG3G), the direct …

Wind energy is a prominent area of application of variable-speed generators operating on
the constant grid frequency. This paper describes the operation and control of one of these …

With the advances of power electronic technology, direct-driven permanent magnet
synchronous generators (PMSGs) have increasingly drawn the interest of wind turbine …

This thesis deals with the analysis, modeling, and control of the doubly-fed induction
generator (DFIG) for wind turbines. Different rotor current control methods are investigated …

This paper presents a new permanent-magnet (PM) brushless machine for wind power
generation. This machine adopts an outer-rotor topology, aiming at capturing wind power …

This paper proposes a wind speed estimation based sensorless maximum wind power
tracking control for variable-speed wind turbine generators (WTGs). A specific design of the …

In this paper, a goal representation heuristic dynamic programming (GrHDP) based
controller is developed for the doubly-fed induction generator based wind farm to improve …

Emphasis of this article is on variable‐speed pitch‐controlled wind turbines with multi‐pole
permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG) and on their extremely soft drive‐train …

Wind Energy Conversion Systems (WECS) have become a focal point in the research of
renewable energy sources. This paper provides then a comparative study of past and …