Review ArticleDoubly Fed Induction Generator Wind Turbines withFuzzy Controller: A Survey
J. S. Sathiyanarayanan1 and A. Senthil Kumar2
1 Department of EEE, Arunai College of Engineering, Velu Nagar, Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu 606603, India2Department of EEE, Velammal Engineering College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 606603, India
Correspondence should be addressed to J. S. Sathiyanarayanan; [email protected]
Received 6 October 2013; Accepted 5 December 2013; Published 15 June 2014
Academic Editors: A. Acir, N. H. Afgan, and N. F. Atta
Copyright ยฉ 2014 J. S. Sathiyanarayanan and A. Senthil Kumar. This is an open access article distributed under the CreativeCommons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided theoriginal work is properly cited.
Wind energy is one of the extraordinary sources of renewable energy due to its clean character and free availability. With theincreasing wind power penetration, the wind farms are directly influencing the power systems. The majority of wind farms areusing variable speed wind turbines equipped with doubly fed induction generators (DFIG) due to their advantages over otherwind turbine generators (WTGs). Therefore, the analysis of wind power dynamics with the DFIG wind turbines has become avery important research issue, especially during transient faults. This paper presents fuzzy logic control of doubly fed inductiongenerator (DFIG) wind turbine in a sample power system. Fuzzy logic controller is applied to rotor side converter for active powercontrol and voltage regulation of wind turbine.
1. Introduction
Doubly fed induction generator (DFIG) is one of the mostpopular wind turbines which includes an induction generatorwith slip ring. Wind power is the most rapidly growing onesince the 20th century due to its reproducible, resourceful,and pollution-free characteristics. Wind energy has a signif-icant impact on dynamic behavior of power system duringnormal operations and transient faults with larger penetra-tion in the grid. This brings new challenges in the stabilityissues and, therefore, the study of influence of wind power onpower system transient stability has become a very importantissue nowadays. Some years ago, the most common typeof generators used in the wind energy conversion system(WECS) was the squirrel cage induction generator (SCIG),a fixed speed wind turbine generator (WTG) system, whichhas a number of drawbacks [1]. Most of the drawbacks can beavoided when variable speedWTGs are used.With the recentprogress in modern power electronics, wind turbine withdoubly fed induction generator (DFIG) has drawn increasingattention. In the DFIG, the induction generator is grid-connected at the stator terminals as well as at the rotor
mains via a partially rated variable frequency AC/DC/ACconverter (VFC). The VFC consists of a rotor-side converter(RSC) and a grid-side converter (GSC) connected back-to-back by a dc-link capacitor.TheVFC takes a full control of thegenerator, like decoupled control of active and reactive power,faster dynamic response with low harmonic distortion, andso forth, handling only a very small fraction (25โ30%)of the total power [2]. DFIG wind turbine also improvessystem efficiency with its optimal rotational speed, reducesnoise and mechanical stresses, improves power quality, andcompensates for torque and power pulsations [1]. Whenconnected to the grid, the RSC of the DFIG may be blockedduring a grid fault to protect it from overcurrent in themotor circuit [1, 2]. After the converter has been blocked,the wind turbine trips shortly. However, a few seconds afterthe fault has cleared, it automatically reconnects itself tothe power network. The author in [3] proposed a featureof uninterrupted operation of a DFIG wind turbine duringgrid faults. The rotor circuit is first short-circuited by acrowbar circuit (an external resistor). The generator starts toabsorb reactive power as it acts as a conventional inductiongenerator. The operation of the wind turbine in producing
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active power continues and, to have a control over the reactivepower and voltage, the GSC can be set. In order to preventthe wind turbine from fatal overspeeding, the pitch anglecontroller might be activated. The RSC will restart and thewind turbine will return to normal operation once the faulthas been cleared and reestablish the voltage and frequencyin the power network. However, for a weak power networkwith small power capacity, the GSC cannot provide sufficientreactive power and voltage support during a grid fault. TheRSCwill not restart, disconnecting the wind turbine from thepower network.This introduces the risk of voltage instability.It is thus critical to maintain the voltage stability to maintainuninterrupted operation of the DFIG wind turbines.
As stated before, there is a global desire to institute largevolume of wind power and flourish the share of energyconsumption generated by the wind turbine. The interactionwith the grid becomes extremely critical. Unlike conventionalpower plants, during and immediately following a gridfailure, all the wind turbines will trip due to their inability tosupport the voltage and the frequency of the grid during theperiod. This might cause serious voltage recovery problemsfollowing a three-phase fault and begin to influence theoverall power system stability [4]. For the smooth operationand optimal integration of large-scale application of windenergy, without any compromise to the system stability, itis thus essential for the turbines to stay connected to thegrid, even in the case of a fault. Like conventional powerplants, these renewable energy generators should be able towithstand and supply active and reactive power for frequencyand voltage support immediately after the fault has beencleared to control and stabilize the power system followingthe disturbance [5]. The DFIG provides a huge possibilityto improve network dynamic behavior by using the powerelectronic converters with sufficient control arrangements.Many different structure and control algorithms can be usedfor control of power converter. One of the most commoncontrol techniques is decoupled PI control of output activeand reactive power to improve dynamic behavior of windturbine. But due to uncertainty about the exact model andbehavior of some parameters such as wind and wind turbineand also parameters values differences during operationbecause of temperature, events, or unpredictable wind speed,tuning of PI parameters is one of the main problems inthis control method. Using fuzzy control, we can producecontroller outputs more reliable because the effect of otherparameters such as noise and events due to wide rangeof control region and online changing of the controllerparameters can be considered.Moreover without the need fora detailed mathematical model of the system and just usingthe knowledge of the total operation and behavior of system,tuning of parameters can be done more easily.
2. DFIG Wind Turbine Model
Dynamic model of a DFIG wind turbine can be representedin terms of the equations of each of the subsystems, mainlythe turbine, the drive train, the induction generator, andthe control system. The detailed description of the dynamic
modeling of DFIG wind turbine is out of the scope of thispaper. Detailed information regarding this can be found in[6โ10]. The block diagram of the basic DFIG is shown inFigure 1.
2.1. Wind Turbine Model. ๐ถ๐-๐-๐ฝ curve demonstrates the
characteristics of the aerodynamic model of a wind turbine.The mechanical torque (๐
๐) extracted from the wind by the
wind turbine can be expressed as [11]
๐๐=๐๐ด๐ถ๐(๐, ๐ฝ)๐
3
๐
2๐๐ก
, (1)
where ๐ is the air density, ๐ด is the sweep area of the blades,๐ถ๐is the power coefficient, ๐ is the tip speed ratio, ๐ฝ is the
pitch angle, ๐๐is the wind speed, and ๐
๐กis the turbine rotor
angular speed.
2.2. Drive TrainModel. Conventionally, the rotor is treated astwo lumped masses; that is, turbine mass and generator massare connected together by a shaft with certain damping andstiffness coefficient values. After simplifications of neglectingthe turbine and generator self-damping, shaft stiffness, andtensional oscillations, the mathematical equation for themechanical part can be expressed as [12]
2 (๐ป๐ก+ ๐ป๐)๐๐๐
๐๐ก= ๐๐โ ๐๐, (2)
where๐ป is the inertia constant, ๐ is the rotor angular speed,and ๐
๐is the electromagnetic torque; suffixes ๐ก and ๐ denote
the turbine and the generator, respectively.
2.3. Generator Model. A synchronously rotating ๐-๐ refer-ence frame is chosen and generation convention is consideredduring modeling the induction generator. Park equationsdetermine the values of ๐- and ๐-axis voltage value ofstator and rotor [12], which in turn gives the values ofelectromagnetic torque and load flow (๐ and ๐) determinedby [13].
2.4. Control System Model. The control system generatespitch angle command signal, ๐ฝ for temporary reduction ofwind turbine mechanical power by reducing ๐ถ
๐when the
rotor speed is over the value that sustains power systemstability. It also generates the voltage command signals V
๐and
Vgc for the rotor side converter (RSC) and grid side converter(GSC), respectively, in order to control the capacitor DCvoltage and the reactive power or the voltage at the gridterminals.
2.5. Converter Protection Device. A protection device,namely, โCrowbar,โ is used to save the rotor circuit andpower electronic converter from high rotor transientcurrent. Crowbar is external rotor impedance, coupledvia the slip rings with the generator rotor instead of theconverter. When the rotor current exceeds the current ratingof the crowbar, it is triggered and the RSC is blocked. Aslong as the crowbar is triggered, the generator behaves as aconventional squirrel cage induction generator (SCIG) [3].
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3. Evaluation of System Transient Stability
Power system transient stability is the capability of a powersystem to return to a stable operating point after theoccurrence of a disturbance that changes its topology [14].Examples of changes of the topology of a power system are
(i) tripping of a generator or a line,(ii) sudden change of a load, including a load trip,(iii) occurrence of a fault, that is, a short circuit.
To assess the system transient stability performance, thesimplest and widely used test system is adopted in [6, 15โ17] and a short circuit fault is simulated on one of the linesbetween Bus ๐ด and Bus๐ท (Figure 2).
Thevenin equivalent circuit, seen from Bus ๐ต, is shown inFigure 3.This is generally called the driving point impedanceat Bus ๐ต found from the ๐Bus matrix of the power systemnetwork.With reference to Figure 3, theThevenin impedancebefore the fault
๐Th Pre๐น = (๐๐ด๐ท Top โฅ ๐๐ด๐ท Bottom) + ๐๐ด๐ต, (3)
where ๐Th Pre๐น is Thevenin impedance between Bus ๐ท andBus ๐ต before the fault, ๐
๐ด๐ท Top and ๐๐ด๐ท Bottom are the
impedance of the lines between Buses ๐ด and ๐ท, and ๐๐ด๐ต
=
๐๐ด๐ถ+ ๐๐ต๐ถ
is the impedance between Bus ๐ด and Bus ๐ต.TheThevenin impedance after the fault is cleared is
Th eF ๐ด๐ท Bottom ๐ด๐ต ๐ = ๐ + ๐ Pr , (4)
where ๐Th post๐น is Thevenin impedance between Bus ๐ท andBus ๐ต after the removal of the fault line.
It is clear that๐Th Pre๐น is less than๐Th post๐น, whichweakensthe system after fault.The weaker systems will have two typesof impact: (1) the voltage drop across theThevenin impedancewill be larger and (2) the power transfer capability will bereduced. The transfer capability from one bus to another canbe written as [17, 18]
๐ = (๐1โ ๐2
๐) sin ๐ฟ, (5)
where ๐1is the magnitude of the bus voltage at the sending
end, ๐2is magnitude of the bus voltage at the receiving
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ZAD Top
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end, ๐ is the reactance between Buses 1 and 2, and ๐ฟ isthe phase angle between Buses 1 and 2. When the voltage isrecovering right after the fault, the power transfer capabilityis decreased proportionally to the amount of voltage reducedat Bus 1 or Bus 2 or both. The voltage regulator will recoverthe voltages at Bus 1 and Bus 2 after some time to restore thepower transfer capability. However, like the case presentedhere, if the network configuration changes after the faultthe reactance ๐ after the fault increases significantly thuschanging the power transfer capability.
The changes in the power-angle characteristic, represent-ing the power transfer between the two buses, are representedin Figure 4. The prefault capability curve shrinks to the post-fault curve during the process. Due to the constant load trans-fer from the source to the sink, the power angle ๐ฟ increase asthe grid weakens (๐ฟPOST-FAULT > ๐ฟPRE-FAULT). The operating๐ฟ may be reasonably small at the prefault condition. Duringthe postfault condition, the operating ๐ฟ angle increases closerto 90โ, making the power system more prone to instability.The synchronous machines at two ends of the line may losesynchronism with respect to each other after a system fault,
Power angle (deg)0 90 180
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if the operating ๐ฟ is initially large and close to the stabilitylimit.
4. Transient Phenomena withDFIG Wind Turbines
This section gives a brief highlight of the transient phe-nomena with grid connected DFIG wind turbines. Detaileddescriptions can be found in [6, 11, 19].
4.1. During the Fault. In the fault instant, due to short circuit,the voltage at theDFIG generator terminal drops.This has gotseveral consequences.
(i) Generator rotor and stator flux decrease resultingin generator demagnetizing process. The consequentresult is the reduction in the electromagnetic torqueand active power of the generator. Mechanical torquegets higher as compared to the electromagnetic torqueand therefore the generator starts to accelerate.
(ii) High current transients appear in the stator and rotorwindings. Crowbar is triggered to bypass this high
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current away from the RSC to prevent the convertersfrom any kind of destructions.
(iii) The GSC is not able to transfer the whole power fromthe rotor through the converter further to the grid. Asa result, the additional energy goes into charging thedc-bus capacitor rapidly.
(iv) Due to decouple control of mechanical rotor fre-quency from the grid frequency by means of powerelectronic converters, a part of potential energy storedin the rotatingmass of the shaft of DFIGwind turbinecannot be supplied to the system. This fact resists theDFIGwind turbine from restoration of grid frequency[14].
(v) It causes exciting oscillations in the rotating mass ofthe shaft as well, which is severe with higher time con-stant and higher damping time due to manufacturingWTG with softer shaft [20].
4.2. After Clearance of the Fault. When the fault is cleared, thevoltage cannot recover completely immediately because RSCcannot provide necessary reactive power to the generatorfor its magnetization process as long as it is blocked due totriggering of crowbar. The generator thus needs to absorbreactive power from the grid and this action delays therecovering process of the grid voltage. GSC successfullycontrols the dc-voltage back to its nominal value. When thegrid voltage recovers over a certain value, the crowbar isremoved. From thismoment, the voltage recovers completely,the generator currents and voltages start to converge to theirprefault values, and the RSC retains its control over the activeand reactive power.
4.3. Factors Influencing Transient Stability. Fault duration,strength of grid coupling, or othermechanical properties playonly aminor role in fault responses if fault ride through oper-ation continues. Only protection system setting has a majorimpact on fault responses and hence transient stability, onlywhenWTGdisconnection is induced by voltage or frequencydeviations. If reconnection time and/or ramping time (timeit takes before WTG has returned to its normal operatingregime) are very long, the generated electrical power goesmuch lower than the extracted mechanical power (whichis hardly reduced) and an unbalance between mechanicaland electrical torque results both before reconnection timeand during ramping time. This is how transient stability isprolonged [4].
5. Fault Ride through Operation
DFIG wind turbines are required to be disconnected fromthe grid to prevent from going into system instability due tothe vulnerable occurrences like high transient current flow,oscillations excited to rotating mass of the drive train, rotorover speed, and dip in grid voltage due to the fault. But withmore wind power penetration in the grid, WTGs are havingmore influences on the overall power system stability andhence โfault ride throughoperationโ (whichmeans remaining
connected in the grid following a fault) of these WTGs islisted as requirement in the grid codes of countries with highlevel of wind power penetration [21].
To sustain fault ride through operation of DFIG windturbines, several control and power electronic devices havebeen implemented to mitigate the abovementioned vulner-able factors immediately after the fault so that the powersystem stability is retained within a few seconds after itsclearance. These are discussed as follows.
5.1. Converter Controller. Installation of crowbar in the sys-tem increases the cost and hinders its reliability. Moreover,triggering of a crowbar causes RSC blocking, which resultsin having generator to operate as SCIG. This often forcesthe disconnection of WTG, which is a complete violationof grid code requirement. Limitation of rotor current hasbeen achieved without any disconnection by converter con-trol method. Several advanced control principles have beenreported: (i) eliminating current and voltage unbalances bysupplying negative sequence current [22โ24], (ii) making thecomponents of rotor current oppose the undesired dc andnegative sequence components in the stator flux linkage, and(iii) making arrangements to feedback the measured statorcurrents as the set point for the current controller of the RSC[25].
5.2. Damping Controller. Oscillation excited to rotating massof the drive train followed by a grid fault may prolong systemstability. PI damping controller can damp โfast generatorspeed oscillationsโ very effectively. It produces active powerreference signal for the RSC control based on the deviation ofgenerator rotor speed from its reference. The speed referenceis defined by the optimal speed curve at the incoming wind.The damping controller needs proper tuning. Insufficienttuning may lead to self-excitation of the drive train systemand risk of unnecessary tripping as protection against vibra-tion in the mechanical construction [26].
5.3. Dynamic Reactive Compensator. During voltage recoveryprocess following a transient fault, GSC cannot providenecessary reactive power due to having converter with smallcapacity. That is why the generator absorbs reactive powerfrom the grid and results in voltage and frequency instability.Such instability problems can be solved by dynamic compen-sation of generatorโs reactive power demand by the followingtwomethods: (i) using shunt flexible AC transmission system(FACTS) devices, such as the static VAR compensator (SVC)and the static synchronous compensator (STATCOM), togenerate a set of balanced three-phased sinusoidal voltages atthe fundamental frequency with rapidly controllable ampli-tude and phase angle to drive PWM converter with dc-linkcapacitor and transport necessary reactive power in the grid[5, 27, 28], and (ii) reconfiguring RSC in parallel with GSCduring fault so that both feed a good amount of reactivecurrent, which is again intensified by transient control mode(TCM) [29].This is how a rapid regulation of the grid voltageis maintained to enhance the capability of the DFIG windturbine to ride through the fault.
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5.4. Pitch Angle Controller. At a short circuit fault, the gridvoltage and then the electromagnetic torque are significantlyreduced, which lead to wind turbine acceleration. The pitchangle controller therefore prevents the rotor overspeed andhence helps reestablishing the voltage at the WTG terminalby aerodynamic power shedding by the generation of pitchangle. It should be possible to reduce the power productionof the wind turbine from any arbitrary operational point tobelow 20% of the rated power in less than 2 s [19]. Faster pitchrate of change can support better the network voltage stabilityby reducing aerodynamic power faster. Pitch angle controllerdamps โslow frequency oscillations of generator speedโ aswell.
6. Indirect Current Mode Control
This section analyzes the closed-loop behaviour of the DFIGsystem using indirect CMCmethods. Two current regulatorsfor the rotor-side converter are considered: the conventionalregulator and a regulator intended for unbalanced grid faults.The same steps are followed in both analyses: the open-loopmodel of the DFIG system is first formulated; second, thecurrent regulator is written; and, third, by combining theopen-loop model and the control model, the closed-loopdynamic description of the rotor-side system is derived.
6.1. Conventional Current Regulator. Theopen-loopmodel oftheDFIG system is represented, as usual, in the๐โ๐ referenceframe. A synchronously rotating reference frame is used withthe direct axis oriented along the stator flux position. In thisway, the reference frame is rotating with the same speed asthe stator voltage. Thus, the stator and rotor voltages can beexpressed as follows:
๐๐๐ = ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ +๐๐๐๐
๐๐กโ ๐๐ ๐๐๐
๐๐๐ = ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ +๐๐๐๐
๐๐ก+ ๐๐ ๐๐๐
๐๐๐= ๐ ๐๐๐๐+๐๐๐๐
๐๐กโ (๐๐ โ ๐๐) ๐๐๐
๐๐๐= ๐ ๐๐๐๐+๐๐๐๐
๐๐ก+ (๐๐ โ ๐๐) ๐๐๐
(6)
with
๐๐๐ = ๐ฟ๐ ๐๐๐ + ๐ฟmidr
๐๐๐ = ๐ฟ๐ ๐๐๐ + ๐ฟmiqr
๐๐๐= ๐ฟ๐๐๐๐+ ๐ฟmids
๐๐๐= ๐ฟ๐๐๐๐+ ๐ฟmiqs.
(7)
The inputs of the open-loop model are voltages andangular frequencies, and the outputs are currents. The statorvoltage is given by the grid voltage, while the rotor voltageis supplied by the rotor-side converter. It is assumed in thisstudy that the converters are sufficiently fast, so that they
โ โ
idr, iqr
ids, iqs
PI control
Cross-couplingterms
โ โ
+ +idr, iqr ๏ฟฝdr, ๏ฟฝqr
Figure 5: Conventional (indirect) current regulator.
can exactly track the reference voltage. In this case, the rotorvoltages are given by the rotor-side controller:
๐๐๐= ๐โ
๐๐
๐๐๐= ๐โ
๐๐.
(8)
Figure 5 shows the conventional current regulator for therotor side converter. The regulator combines a proportional-integral (PI) controller with cross-coupling:
๐โ
๐๐= ๐ ๐๐๐๐+ ๐
pi๐๐โ (๐๐ โ ๐๐) ๐๐๐
๐โ
๐๐= ๐ ๐๐๐๐+ ๐
pi๐๐+ (๐๐ โ ๐๐) ๐๐๐.
(9)
7. Fuzzy Control System
The control system is based on fuzzy logic. This type ofcontrol, approaching the human reasoning that makes use ofthe tolerance, uncertainty, imprecision, and fuzziness in thedecision-making process, manages to offer a very satisfactoryperformance, without the need of a detailed mathematicalmodel of the system, just by incorporating the expertsโknowledge into fuzzy rules. In addition, it has inherentabilities to deal with imprecise or noisy data; thus, it isable to extend its control capability even to those operatingconditions where linear control techniques fail (i.e., largeparameter variations). This system has four main parts.First, using input membership functions, inputs are fuzzified,then, based on rule bases and inference system, outputs areproduced, and finally the fuzzy outputs are defuzzified andapplied to the main control system. Error of inputs fromtheir references and error deviations in any time intervalare chosen as inputs. In this paper, these parts as illustratedin Figure 5 are simulated in MATLAB. Fuzzy logic Controlunits in MATLAB are linked with main system in EMTDCsoftware; therefore, in any simulation time interval, bothsoftware solutions work simultaneously. Inputs are sent toMATLAB and output fuzzy controllers are produced thereand sent to EMTDC software for themain system.The outputof fuzzy controller is the value that should be added to theprior output to produce new reference output.
Figure 6 shows the block diagram of rotor side converterto which fuzzy controllers are applied. The main objectives
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FuzzificationFuzzy inference
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Figure 6: Block diagram of fuzzy controller.
of this part are active power control and voltage regulationof DFIG wind turbine using output reactive power control.As illustrated in Figure 6 rotor-side converter manages tofollow reference active (๐ref) power and voltage (๐ref) sep-arately using fuzzy controllers, hysteresis current controllerconverter, and vector control algorithm [30]. Based on inputsof fuzzy controller are errors in active and reactive power orvoltage and the rate of changes in errors in any time interval.
After the production of reference ๐-axis and ๐-axis rotorcurrents, they converted to ๐-๐-๐ reference frame using fluxangle, rotor angle, and finally slip angle calculation andConcordia and Park transformation matrix. Then they areapplied to a hysteresis current controller to be comparedwith actual currents and produce switching time intervals ofconverter.
8. Conclusion
With the increasing wind power penetration, the windfarms (mostly equipped with increasing number of DFIGwind turbines) are directly influencing the power systems.Therefore, grid code of different countries has enlisted โfaultride through operationโ ofWTGs as one of themajor require-ments to sustain transient stability for reliable operationof power system with uninterrupted power generation andsupply. It shows that the study of transient dynamics withDFIG wind turbines with its current research stand andfuture research options is a very important issue. Generally,DFIG wind turbine suffers from high transient current,rotor overspeed, oscillations in the rotating mass of theshaft, grid voltage, and frequency excursions while subjectedto a transient fault. Research efforts throughout the worldresult in various advanced scientific inventions of deviceslike advanced converter controller, damping controller, pitchangle controller, and dynamic reactive compensator. Thesedevices help mitigate vulnerable problems addressed bytransient faults. Our exploration is to make sustenance ofโfault ride through operationโ of DFIG wind turbines asa means of enhancing transient stability of power systems.Extensive studies have been carried out on transient phe-nomena, factors influencing transient phenomena, and theimpact of faults on both DFIG wind turbine and the grid.But, to our knowledge, most of them carried out qualitativeresearch on transient stability. Most of the papers in theliterature analyzed transient dynamics and stability followedby symmetrical faults on a system with constant loads. Fuzzy
controllers, in contrast to the conventional PI controllers, cantake care of the nonlinearity in the control law and hence areknown to have better performance than PI under variableoperating conditions. Moreover, the TS-fuzzy is better thanthe mamdani type fuzzy controllers in terms of the numberof fuzzy sets for the input fuzzification, number of rulesused, and the number of coefficients to be optimized. Thesestudies may contribute to more accurate simulation resultsfor finding out better strategies for smooth, reliable, anduninterrupted operation of power networks with the futurepenetration of wind energy systems.
Conflict of Interests
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interestsregarding the publication of this paper.
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