An Adaptive Fuzzy Logic Control Strategy for Performance Enhancement of a Grid-Connected PMSG-Based Wind Turbine

Wind power installations are rapidly increasing worldwide, leading to a huge level of permeation into electricity supply networks. Enormous efforts are spent to improve the performance of the wind turbine generator systems. This paper proposes a novel adaptive fuzzy logic control strategy for performance improvement of a grid-tied wind generator system. The variable-speed wind turbine driven permanent-magnet synchronous generator is tied to the electricity network by a full-capacity power converter. A cascaded adaptive fuzzy logic control strategy is proposed as the control methodology for the generator- and the grid-side converter/inverter. The adaptive technique depends on a continuous mixed p-norm algorithm, which on-line updates the scaling factors of the fuzzy logic controllers (FLCs) at a high convergence speed. For the sake of preciseness, real wind speed data measured in the Zaafarana wind farm, Egypt, are considered in the analyses. The effectiveness of the proposed adaptive FLC is compared to that achieved using particle swarm optimization algorithm based an optimal proportional-integral controller, considering severe grid disturbances. Extensive simulation analyses, which are done using MATLAB/Simulink software, are presented to validate the efficiency of the adaptive fuzzy logic control strategy.