Optimal Control of Wind Energy Systems: Towards a Global Approach (Munteanu, I. et al.; 2008) [Bookshelf]

This book is organized into eight chapters and three appendices. The first three chapters introduce wind energy and discuss modeling of both the wind and wind turbines, while the next three chapters discuss basic and advanced controllers for wind turbines. The last two chapters outline experimental systems for validating control algorithms and give some general conclusions. The appendices provide the wind turbine parameters considered in particular case studies, give an overview of the main ideas behind three advanced control methodologies, and present some photos and diagrams of experimental evaluation testbeds. This book provides a reasonably good overview of wind energy systems for control engineers, but being a monograph, it is not comprehensive enough to be the sole source of information for control researchers wanting to move into the wind energy area.