Development of a wind turbine simulator

摘要

As a renewable energy source, wind power has become a hot research topic, despite the lack of wind-environment simulation equipment in most laboratories. To address this shortcoming, this paper developed equipment based on a DC motor to simulate wind turbines. The reference torque is determined by the operational parameters of the wind turbine. The DC-motor speed is regulated by using DC pulse-width modulation, so that the output characteristics of the DC motor may be tuned to be equivalent to those of the wind turbine. A dsPIC30F2010-microcontroller-based hardware platform is used in experiments to verify the effectiveness of the proposed approach.