LiDAR-enabled model predictive control of wind turbines with real-time capabilities

We consider LiDAR-enabled model-based collective pitch and torque controllers that can be implemented onboard a wind turbine in a hard real-time environment, in the sense that they can be computed efficiently on standard computer hardware and that require a fixed deterministic number of operations at each call.

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