Wind Energy Systems: Control Engineering Design - Hardcover

Garcia-Sanz, Mario; Houpis, Constantine H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1439821798 ISBN 13: 9781439821794

Publisher: CRC Press, 2012

Synopsis

• This book describes the design and field experimentation of real-world multi-megawatt wind turbines and their control systems. It introduces the main topics of modern wind turbine design and control, including (1) the description of classical and advanced turbines, (2) dynamic modeling, (3) control objectives and strategies, (4) standards and certification, (5) controller design, and (6) a large number of applications like onshore and offshore wind turbines, floating wind turbines, airborne wind energy systems, advanced manufacturing and real experimentation. 

• The book also presents the main concepts of the QFT robust control engineering technique in such a manner that students and practicing engineers can readily grasp the fundamentals and appreciate its transparency in bridging the gap between theory and the real world. It addresses state-of-the-art of QFT methods to design control systems for multi-input multi-output applications, distributed parameter systems, and a hybrid methodology to design non-linear robust control systems able to go beyond the classical linear limitations. 

• The book presents many examples and projects with the QFT Control Toolbox (or QFTCT) for Matlab developed by Prof. Garcia-Sanz (See also the website codypower.com).

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About the Author

Prof. Mario Garcia-Sanz is one of the pioneers in the QFT robust control arena. Over the last 30 years, he has developed new QFT control theory and has designed many commercial control solutions for industry and space agencies. With over 20 industrial patents and 200 research papers, he has been the Principal Investigator of over 50 funded research projects for industry, and has worked as an international expert on wind turbine design and control in patent litigation at the British Court. As a Full Professor at the Public University of Navarra and Senior Advisor for European wind energy companies he played a central role in the design and field experimentation of multi-megawatt wind turbines for industry, including the advice of many PhD students and engineers in the field. Dr. Garcia-Sanz is currently a Professor and Founding Director of the Control and Energy Systems Center, and the inaugural Maltz Endowed Chair in Energy Innovation at Case Western Reserve University (cesc.case.edu). He also has been NATO/RTO Lecture Series Director, Visiting Professor at UMIST (UK); at Oxford University (UK); at NASA-JPL (California); and at the European Space Agency ESA-ESTEC (The Netherlands). He founded CoDyPower LLC, a consulting firmspecialized on control systems, energy innovation and optimum planning of electrical distribution networks (codypower.com). Professor Garcia-Sanz's CRC-Press three books "Quantitative Feedback Theory: Theory and Applications" (2006),"Wind Energy Systems: Control Engineering Design" (2012), and "Robust Control Engineering: Practical QFT Solutions" (2017) are among the best-selling books in QFT and Wind turbine control. His QFT Control Toolbox for Matlab is considered as the top tool for designing QFT control systems. Dr. Garcia-Sanz is Subject Editor of the International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control,and received the IEE Heaviside Prize (UK), the BBVA research award (Spain) and the CWRU Diekhoff Teaching Award (USA).

Edition details

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1439821798
• ISBN 13: 9781439821794
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 632