Session description

The application of advanced control can be utilised to improve turbine performance. The topics addressed in this session include wind turbine/farm control to provide frequency support including droop control, the collective control of a number of wind turbines through the use of a common bus bar and converter, and the stabilisation of floating wind turbines. The control design techniques used include model-predictive, nonlinear and robust control design.

This session will be chaired by:
William Leithead, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
Co-chair: Marta Barreras, Gamesa, Spain

Asier Díaz de Corcuera
IK4-IKERLAN, Spain
Mechanical load analysis of PMSG wind turbines in primary frequency regulation

Adam Stock
Strathclyde University, United Kingdom
Providing Frequency Droop Control Using Variable Speed Wind Turbines with Augmented Control

Agusti Egea-Alvarez
CITCEA-UPC, Spain
Sensorless control of a power converter for a cluster of small wind turbines

Markus Marnett
RWTH Aachen, Germany
Systematic numerical design of optimal blade pitch control for vertical axis wind turbines