Sliding mode control of wind energy conversion systems: Trends and applications

Motivated by the increasing concerns over environmental challenges such as global warming and exhaustion of fossil-fuel reserves, renewable energy industry has become most sought-after source electrical production worldwide. In this context, wind conversion systems (WECS) are one dominant fastest-growing technologies, playing an increasingly vital role in power generation. To meet growing demand mitigate vulnerability WECS to various sets internal/external faults, cost-effectiveness efficient must be ensured, which highlights critical control system. This topic been intensively studied literature, many approaches have developed deal with simultaneous enhancement efficiency reliability WECS. However, sliding mode (SMC) proved its reliable superior performance among strategies due inherent robustness parametric uncertainties disturbances ease design implementation. Accordingly, paper provides a comprehensive survey existing literature on application SMC emerging modifications address different problems for