Ibrahim M. Mehedi^1,2,*, Ubaid M. Al-Saggaf^1,2, Mahendiran T. Vellingiri¹, Ahmad H. Milyani¹, Nordin Bin Saad³, Nor Zaihar Bin Yahaya³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.2, pp. 4001-4017, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.021981 - 07 December 2021

Abstract In recent times, wind energy receives maximum attention and has become a significant green energy source globally. The wind turbine (WT) entered into several domains such as power electronics that are employed to assist the connection process of a wind energy system and grid. The turbulent characteristics of wind profile along with uncertainty in the design of WT make it highly challenging for prolific power extraction. The pitch control angle is employed to effectively operate the WT at the above nominal wind speed. Besides, the pitch controller needs to be intelligent for the extraction of… More >

Yilin Hu¹, Yan Xie², Bo Li^3,*, Yiqiang Jiang¹, Fu Bao¹

Energy Engineering, Vol.118, No.4, pp. 911-929, 2021, DOI:10.32604/EE.2021.014759 - 31 May 2021

Abstract Wind turbine employs pitch angle control to maintain captured power at its rated value when the wind speed is higher than rated value. This work adopts a perturbation observer based sliding-mode control (POSMC) strategy to realize robust variable-pitch control of permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG). POSMC combines system nonlinearities, parametric uncertainties, unmodelled dynamics, and time-varying external disturbances into a perturbation, which aims to estimate the perturbation via a perturbation observer without an accurate system model. Subsequently, sliding mode control (SMC) is designed to completely compensate perturbation estimation in real-time for the sake of achieving a More >