Motivated by the increasing concerns over environmental challenges such as global
warming and exhaustion of fossil-fuel reserves, the renewable energy industry has become …

Self-governing small regions of power systems, known as “microgrids”, are enabling the
integration of small-scale renewable energy sources (RESs) while improving the reliability …

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

This paper describes a direct-torque-controlled (DTC) induction motor (IM) drive that
employs feedback linearization and sliding-mode control (SMC). A new feedback …

A novel control scheme for permanent-magnet synchronous generator is proposed in this
paper, where a current-source converter is employed as the bridge between the generator …

This paper introduces a new technique for the distributed voltage and frequency control of
the local ac-grid in offshore wind farms based on synchronous generators. The proposed …

Maximum power point tracking (MPPT) is a very important necessity in a system of energy
conversion from a renewable energy source. Every year a number of publications appear in …

Microgrids with distributed generation sources are critical for reduction of greenhouse gas
emissions and imported energy. However, power converters and circuit breakers built with …

With the advance of power electronic technology, the application of HVdc light systems
based on voltage-source insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) converters has increased …

This paper presents an improved Elman neural network (IENN)-based algorithm for optimal
wind-energy control with maximum power point tracking. An online training IENN controller …