Intelligent Control of a Large Variable Speed Wind Turbine

We present two intelligent controllers for large and flexible wind turbines operating in high-speed winds, a Fuzzy-P + I and an adaptive neuro-fuzzy controller. The control objective is to regulate the rotor speed at the given rated power in region 3 (full load) via collective blade pitch angle. The modeled turbine is a three-bladed, upwind machine with a flexible blade and tower. We use the particle swarm optimization method in off-line training for our adaptive neuro-fuzzy controller. Numerical simulations are performed using wind inflow step change with a set of input–output data of a nonlinear wind turbine model. We compare the performance of the proposed controllers with the baseline PI-controller. Simulation results confirm successful performance of the proposed controllers.