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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
35
Citations
5096
World Ranking
2644
National Ranking
932

Best Publications

  • Control of wind turbines: Past, present, and future

    Jason H. Laks;Lucy Y. Pao;Alan D. Wright

  • Modern Control Design for Flexible Wind Turbines

    Unknown

  • Vibration Modes of Centrifugally Stiffened Beams

    Unknown

  • A reference open-source controller for fixed and floating offshore wind turbines

    Unknown

  • Advanced Control Design for Wind Turbines; Part I: Control Design, Implementation, and Initial Tests

    Unknown

  • Field-test results using a nacelle-mounted lidar for improving wind turbine power capture by reducing yaw misalignment

    P A Fleming;A K Scholbrock;A Jehu;S Davoust

  • Validation of Individual Pitch Control by Field Tests on Two- and Three-Bladed Wind Turbines

    E. A. Bossanyi;P. A. Fleming;A. D. Wright

  • Adding feedforward blade pitch control to standard feedback controllers for load mitigation in wind turbines

    Fiona Dunne;Lucy Y. Pao;Alan D. Wright;Bonnie Jonkman

  • Individual Blade Pitch Control for the Controls Advanced Research Turbine (CART)

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  • Field testing of feedforward collective pitch control on the CART2 using a nacelle-based lidar scanner

    David Schlipf;Paul Fleming;Florian Haizmann;Andrew Scholbrock

  • Direct adaptive control of a utility-scale wind turbine for speed regulation

    Susan A. Frost;Mark J. Balas;Alan D. Wright

  • FX-RLS-Based Feedforward Control for LIDAR-Enabled Wind Turbine Load Mitigation

    Unknown

  • The use of preview wind measurements for blade pitch control

    Jason Laks;Lucy Pao;Alan Wright;Neil Kelley

  • Field Testing LIDAR Based Feed-Forward Controls on the NREL Controls Advanced Research Turbine

    Andrew Scholbrock;Paul Fleming;Lee Fingersh;Alan Wright

  • Lidar-enhanced wind turbine control: Past, present, and future

    Andrew Scholbrock;Paul Fleming;David Schlipf;Alan Wright

  • Design of State-Space-Based Control Algorithms for Wind Turbine Speed Regulation

    Alan D. Wright;Mark J. Balas

  • Model Predictive Control Using Preview Measurements From LIDAR y

    Jason Laks;Lucy Y. Pao;Eric Simley;Neil Kelley

  • Design of Controls to Attenuate Loads in the Controls Advanced Research Turbine

    Alan D. Wright;Mark J. Balas

  • Comparison of Strategies for Enhancing Energy Capture and Reducing Loads Using LIDAR and Feedforward Control

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  • Blade Pitch Control with Preview Wind Measurements y

    Jason Laks;Lucy Y. Pao;Alan Wright;Neil Kelley

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