From the reviews:
“The book under review provides technical background on wind turbines specifically tailored for the controls engineer, and thus the target audience for this text is members of the control research community who are interested in wind energy applications. … an excellent reference for researchers in the field pursuing one of the methodologies covered in the text. … the book demonstrates a few advanced control approaches with enough detail for the interested reader to embark on research using the methods presented in the book.” (Jason H. Laks and Lucy Y. Pao, IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol. 29, June, 2009)Optimal Control of Wind Energy Systems
Towards a Global Approach
von Iulian Munteanu, Antoneta Iuliana Bratcu, Nicolaos-Antonio Cutululis und Emil CeangaOptimal Control of Wind Energy Systems is a thorough review of the main control issues in wind power generation, covering many industrial application problems. A series of control techniques are analyzed and compared, starting with the classical ones, like PI control and gain-scheduling techniques, and continuing with some modern ones: sliding mode techniques, feedback linearization control and robust control. Discussion is directed at identifying the benefits of a global dynamic optimization approach to wind power systems. The main results are presented and illustrated by case studies and MATLAB®/Simulink® simulation. The corresponding programmes and block diagrams can be downloaded from the book’s page at springer. com. For some of the case studies presented, real-time simulation results are available. Control engineers, researchers and graduate students interested in learning and applying systematic optimization procedures to wind power systems will find this a most useful guide to the field.
