Adaptive PI Control Strategy for a Self-Excited Induction Generator Driven by a Variable Speed Wind Turbine

Abstract

In this paper, an adaptive proportional-integral (API) control strategy is developed to extract the maximum power from a variable wind speed turbine and to regulate the DC-link voltage, rotor flux and AC load voltage in a three-phase grid-connected self-excited induction generator (SEIG) system. The resulting controller associated to the flux-oriented control technique can be easily implemented in practice since finite time estimators for the unknown time-varying rotor resistance, rotor flux (nonmeasurable signal) and stator electrical angular position required for the online implementation of the proposed algorithm are provided. Comparative results with a conventional nonadaptive proportional-integral regulator have shown the superiority of the proposed strategy in terms of robustness with respect to online variation of the rotor resistance (up to 100%) and large varying load condition. The computing results are obtained using relatively low wind speed profile. Thus, the generating system with the proposed control strategy is suitable for variable wind speed turbine installation for grid-connected and remote-area power supply where the wind speed profile is relatively low.