**Robust Control Applications to a Wind Turbine-Simulated System** Robust Control Applications to a Wind Turbine-Simulated System

DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.71526

Silvio Simani and Paolo Castaldi Silvio Simani and Paolo Castaldi

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http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.71526

#### Abstract

Wind turbine plants are complex dynamic and uncertain processes driven by stochastic inputs and disturbances, as well as different loads represented by gyroscopic, centrifugal and gravitational forces. Moreover, as their aerodynamic models are nonlinear, both modelling and control become challenging problems. On one hand, high-fidelity simulators should contain different parameters and variables in order to accurately describe the main dynamic system behaviour. Therefore, the development of modelling and control for wind turbine systems should consider these complexity aspects. On the other hand, these control solutions have to include the main wind turbine dynamic characteristics without becoming too complicated. The main point of this chapter is thus to provide two practical examples of development of robust control strategies when applied to a simulated wind turbine plant. Experiments with the wind turbine simulator represent the instruments for assessing the main aspects of the developed control methodologies.

Keywords: wind turbine simulator, data-driven and model-based approaches, fuzzy identification, online estimation, robustness and reliability
