Smart Variable Rotor of Vertical Axis Wind Turbine with Faster Cut-in Speed and Wide Range Extract Power Using Artificial Intelligent

This paper presents the standalone type vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) smart rotor using variable diameter rotor (VDR) in order to tap constant power and maintain cut-in wind speed. VDR is a smart variable rotor capable of operating at a low wind speed, in which the width of diameter rotor is adjustable using actuators. The VDR rotor is connected to the permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG) and a DC-DC boost converter. The controller of VDR rotors uses fuzzy logic controller (FLC). The FLC variable inputs are wind speed data and power output, broken down into cluster groups to determine the diameter rotor position. The wind speed data as fuzzy input are produced by wind speed estimator using artificial neural network (ANN) to maintain cut-in speed to be faster. The velocity movement of VDR is limited from 75 cm to 150 cm. The VDR extension increases by 25% when the wind speed decreases from 8 to 6 m/s to obtain consistent power at 150 Watt. The experimental of VDR system is tested at low wind speeds ranging from 1 to 8 m/s as a verification of the control system. The result showed that the VDR produced five times increase in efficiency with faster cut-in wind speed at 2.0 m/s.