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Area of Science:

  • Renewable Energy Systems
  • Control Engineering
  • Electrical Machines

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  • High-performance modeling and optimization tools are crucial for renewable energy development, especially wind power.
  • Wind turbine emulators are essential for secure and flexible development and validation of control strategies.
  • Emulators must accurately track wind profiles, be robust to disturbances, and execute in real-time, posing design complexities for hybrid systems and smart grids.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To experimentally examine a novel technique for wind turbine simulation.
  • To design, analyze, and construct a wind turbine emulator that accurately replicates dynamic and static characteristics of a real wind turbine.
  • To develop advanced control legislation for overall system stability.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized an asynchronous machine (ASM) for cost-effective and efficient emulation over a DC machine.
  • Applied a backstepping control approach to stabilize the ASM by regulating flux and controlling rotational speed.
  • Validated the proposed method through MATLAB/Simulink simulations and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) testing on a dSPACE 1104 platform.

Main Results:

  • The asynchronous machine-based emulator successfully mimicked real wind turbine operation.
  • Backstepping control ensured smooth and reliable performance by stabilizing the ASM.
  • HIL testing confirmed the method's efficacy in evaluating robustness and performance.

Conclusions:

  • The developed wind turbine emulator demonstrates potential for advanced wind energy applications.
  • The backstepping control strategy guarantees system stability and reliable performance.
  • This cost-effective and robust emulation technique facilitates further development in wind energy systems.