Adaptive neuro-fuzzy approach for wind turbine power coefficient estimation

Wind energy has become a large contender of traditional fossil fuel energy, particularly with the successful operation of multi-megawatt sized wind turbines. However, reasonable wind speed is not adequately sustainable everywhere to build an economical wind farm. In wind energy conversion systems, one of the operational problems is the changeability and fluctuation of wind. In most cases, wind speed can vacillate rapidly. Hence, quality of produced energy becomes an important problem in wind energy conversion plants. Several control techniques have been applied to improve the quality of power generated fromwind turbines. In this study, the adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) is designed and adapted to estimate optimal power coefficient value of the wind turbines. Neural network in ANFIS adjusts parameters of membership function in the fuzzy logic of the fuzzy inference system (FIS). The back propagation learning algorithm is used for training this network. This intelligent controller is implemented using Matlab/Simulink and the performances are investigated. The simulation results presented in this paper show the effectiveness of the developed method. & 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.