In this paper, a sliding mode controller for the stator voltage amplitude of a stand-alone wound rotor synchronous generator is presented. The standard dq-model of the electrical machine connected to an isolated inductive load is obtained. Then, the control law is designed using sliding mode techniques. The controller introduces a dynamic extension so that the stator voltage amplitude has relat...

Permanent-Magnet Synchronous Generators (PMSGs) exhibit high efficiency and power density, and have already been employed in gearless wind turbines. In the gearless wind turbines, due to the removal of the gearbox, the cogging torque is an important issue. Therefore, in this paper, at first, design of a Permanent-Magnet Synchronous Generator for a 2MW gearless horizontal-axis wind turbine, acco...

In Permanent-Magnet Synchronous Generators (PMSGs) the reduction of cogging torque is one of the most important problems in their performance and evaluation. In this paper, at first, a direct-drive vertical-axis wind turbine is chosen. According to its nominal value operational point, necessary parameters for the generator is extracted. Due to an analytical method, four generators with differen...

A novel computer system tool for the parameter estimation of mathematical synchronous-machine models is presented. It uses state-of-the-art information technology software. The tool allows the electrical power engineers to obtain the electrical parameters of a synchronous machine model. The practical usefulness of the developed system is demonstrated by obtaining the parameter set for conventio...

This paper presents the study of a new application of non linear techniques for energy harvesting. The Synchronous Electric Charge Extraction (SECE) harvesting technique for piezoelectric generators is extended and adapted to electromagnetic generators. Because of the magnetic flux/electrical charge duality, this new circuit is named SMFE for Synchronous Magnetic Flux Extraction. A global theor...

In this paper, a novel method is presented for detection and classification of the faultyphase/region in the stator winding of synchronous generators on the basis of the resulting harmoniccomponents that appear in the terminal voltage waveforms. Analytical results obtained through DecisionTree (DT) show that the internal faults are not only detectable but also they can be classified andthe rela...