Dynamic Simulation of PMSG Wind Turbine on ZedBoard FPGA

Abstract

This paper gives a co-dynamic simulation of a permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG)-based wind turbine implemented on field programmable gate array (FPGA) board. The proposed wind energy conversion system (WECS) includes the wind turbine model, pitch angle and maximum power point tracking (MPPT) controllers, generator model, and the control schemes of power converters for the machine and grid sides. The use of FPGA as a computational board offers a significant high simulation speed comparing to a typical computer, especially for a parallelized operations.