Energies, Vol. 12, Pages 595: Adaptive Sliding Mode Control for PMSG Wind Turbine Systems (Energies)

In this paper, variable speed PMSG wind turbine systems with unknown system parameters, such as vicious friction coefficient and total inertia, are considered. The errors and variations of wind speed are modeled as a disturbance in mechanical torque. In general, the optimum rotating speed is given based on the MPPT (Maximum Power Point Tracking) algorithm and the designed controller tracks the reference (optimum) rotating speed in spite of these parametric uncertainties and disturbances. In order to have a desired rotor speed, a sliding mode current controller is proposed to have robustly stabilizing torque input. From the robustly stabilizing q-axis current i q , q-axis voltage input u q is obtained. Additionally, the d-axis control input u d is designed to regulate the d-axis current i d . The adaptive estimator, for the total inertia J and the viscous friction coefficient F , is designed by a backstepping control technique. The robust stability of the closed-loop system is shown using a Lyapunov function. The proposed controller is verified via a simulation using MATLAB/Simulink.