Wind energy is recognized worldwide as cost-effective and
environmentally friendly and is among the world's fastest-
growing sources of electrical... Wind energy is recognized
worldwide as cost-effective and environmentally friendly and is
among the world's fastest-growing sources of electrical energy.
Despite the amazing growth in global wind power installations in
recent years, science and engineering challenges still exist.
Megawatt wind turbines are large, flexible structures that
operate in uncertain, time-varying wind and weather conditions
and lend themselves nicely to advanced control solutions.
Advanced controllers can help achieve the overall goal of
decreasing the cost of wind energy by increasing the efficiency,
and thus the energy capture, or by reducing structural loading
and increasing the lifetimes of the components and turbine
structures. In this talk, we will first provide an overview of
wind energy systems. We will describe the main components of
wind turbines, the sensors and actuators, the