SBIR Phase I: Advanced Control and Estimation for Cooperative Vertical Axis Wind Turbines

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。这项小型企业创新研究第一阶段的研究项目旨在开发先进的控制技术，以提高小型垂直轴风力涡轮机的整体成本效益。大多数商用风力涡轮机的运行效率远低于实际实现的效率。通过实施主动控制，可以大大提高效率。在这个项目中，简单的叶片驱动机构、先进的控制算法、非线性滤波方法将与有效的发电机、电源转换器和传感器技术相结合，以降低每千瓦的总成本。此外，通过实现单元间通信，将为安装在建筑物上的多个垂直轴风力涡轮机开发协同控制方法。预计拟议的先进技术将使垂直轴风力涡轮机机组在经济上可行，适用于中小型住宅和商业建筑。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I research project seeks to develop advanced control technologies for improving the overall cost-effectiveness of small-scale vertical axis wind turbines. Most commercial wind turbines operate at energy efficiencies much lower than what can be practically realized. The efficiency can be vastly improved by implementing active control. In this project, simple blade actuation mechanisms, advanced control algorithms, nonlinear filtering methods will be integrated with effective generator, power converter and sensor technologies for reduction of overall cost per kilowatt. Furthermore, cooperative control methods will be developed for multiple vertical axis wind turbines installed on a building, by enabling inter-unit communication. It is expected that the proposed advanced technologies will render vertical axis wind turbines units economically viable for small-to-medium scale implementation on residential and commercial buildings.