State-of-the-art in wind turbine control: Trends and challenges

JG Njiri, D Söffker - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Wind energy is one of the most rapidly growing renewable sources of energy due to the fact
that it has little negative impact on environment. To meet the growing demand, wind turbines …

Optimal preview control: A review

N Birla, A Swarup - Optimal Control Applications and Methods, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The field of preview control has attracted many researchers for its applications in guidance
of autonomous vehicles, robotics, and process control, as this field is well suited for use in …

Hybrid intelligent feedforward-feedback pitch control for VSWT with predicted wind speed

X Jiao, Q Yang, B Xu - IEEE Transactions on Energy …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Although wind power has gained tremendous development in recent years, how to achieve
mechanical loads optimization to extend service life-time of wind turbines is still a hot and …

Lidar-assisted control concepts for wind turbines

D Schlipf - 2016 - elib.uni-stuttgart.de
Current advances in lidar technology provide opportunities to take a fresh look at wind
turbine control. The wind is not only the main energy source but also the major disturbance …

On the design and tuning of linear model predictive control for wind turbines

A Jain, G Schildbach, L Fagiano, M Morari - Renewable Energy, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper presents a study on the design of linear model predictive control (MPC) for wind
turbines, with a focus on the controller's tuning tradeoffs. A continuously linearized MPC …

Multi-resolution wavelet pitch controller for spar-type floating offshore wind turbines including wave-current interactions

S Sarkar, L Chen, B Fitzgerald, B Basu - Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a wavelet multi-resolution based individual pitch control strategy for
spar-type floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) and investigates its performance under …

Controller Design for Preview and Delayed Systems

A Kojima - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The H∞ control problem of general preview/delayed systems is solved using analytic
solutions of the corresponding operator Riccati equations. The solution to the problem can …

Experimental study on the tower loading characteristics of a floating wind turbine based on wave basin model tests

B Wen, Z Li, Z Jiang, Z Peng, X Dong, X Tian - Journal of Wind Engineering …, 2020 - Elsevier
The tower is an essential supporting structure for a Floating Wind Turbine (FWT). Due to the
complexities of system structure and the environmental excitations, FWT towers present …

LiDAR-enabled model predictive control of wind turbines with real-time capabilities

CL Bottasso, P Pizzinelli, CED Riboldi, L Tasca - Renewable Energy, 2014 - Elsevier
We consider LiDAR-enabled model-based collective pitch and torque controllers that can be
implemented onboard a wind turbine in a hard real-time environment, in the sense that they …

Seasonal analysis and prediction of wind energy using random forests and ARX model structures

Y Lin, U Kruger, J Zhang, Q Wang… - … on Control Systems …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To effectively utilize wind energy, many learning-based autoregressive models have been
proposed in the literature. Improving their short-term prediction accuracy, however, is …