This paper presents a study on the design of linear model predictive control (MPC) for wind turbines, with a focus on the controller's tuning tradeoffs. A continuously linearized MPC approach is described and applied to control a 3-bladed, horizontal axis, variable speed wind turbine. The tuning...

The paper presents an intelligent wind turbine control system based on models integrating the following three approaches: data mining, model predictive control, and evolutionary computation. To enhance the control strategy of the intelligent system, a multi-objective model is proposed. The model...

This paper investigates model predictive control (MPC) of a single sea wave energy converter (WEC). By using control schemes which constrain certain quantities, such as the maximum size of the feedback force, the energy storage for actuators and relative heave motion, it is possible for control...

A method for an efficient operation of a battery energy storage system (BESS) associated with frequency control problem is presented in this paper. A control system model is proposed to simulate the operation of BESS, and a controller is designed. The strategy is based on model predictive...

When designing a building energy system based on renewable energy sources, a major challenge is the suitable sizing of its components. In this paper, a simulation tool is presented for determining the optimal sizes of the main components of a stand-alone building energy system which integrates...

This paper deals with fuzzy model based multivariable predictive control (FMMPC) for wind turbine generator. Using Linear Matrix Inequalities (LMI) technique combined with predictive approach, a FMMPC law is designed easily by solving a convex optimization problem subject to LMI conditions....

A battery energy storage system (BESS) is usually integrated with a wind farm to smooth out its intermittent power in order to make it more dispatchable. This paper focuses on the development of a scheme to minimize the capacity of BESS in a distributed configuration using model predictive...

This paper addresses model predictive control (MPC) of highly-coupled clusters of sea wave energy converters (WECs). Since each WEC is not only a wave absorber but also a wave generator, the motion of each WEC can be affected by the waves generated by its adjacent WECs when they are close to...

The aim of this study is to design a controller, based on model predictive control (MPC), to smooth the wind power output, which is generated from a wind farm, and subject to a variety of constraints on the system model. In order to employ the model predictive controller, we propose a wind power...

A medium voltage power interface for a variable speed Wind Turbine is presented in this paper. The converter topology consists on the Back-to-Back connection of two medium voltage Diode Clamped Multilevel Inverters (DCMI) in the full power path. This mitigates traditional tradeoffs around the...