Fuzzy control techniques for energy conversion systems

Abstract

The exploitation of renewable energies has been increasing, and in particular wind and hydro resources, which have to be effectively transformed into electric power by means of viable technology systems. In order to achieve this point, fuzzy control methods can be considered as simple tools that can be used for this aim. The proposed schemes were already proposed and validated on wind turbine simulators. Therefore, important aspects can be obtained from the application of these control methodologies to hydroelectric processes. This is the key issue of the paper, which tries to give some suggestions for the design and the implementation of these control tools. The working operations of the wind turbine and the hydroelectric plants will be also considered in order to verify the robustness and the reliability aspects of the addressed control methodologies.