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Control System Design and Deployment for Wind Applications

To reduce maintenance costs and maximize energy production, wind turbine control design teams are developing advanced control systems that take advantage of today’s advanced embedded system platforms. NI LabVIEW software provides a high-level control design environment that creates a seamless transition to deployment hardware on reconfigurable field-programmable gate array (FPGA)-based embedded platforms such as NI CompactRIO. These programmable automation controller (PAC) systems combine traditional digital control capabilities with advanced high-speed analog I/O and unparalleled real-time signal processing performance.

NI CompactRIO Machine Control Resource Kit

The flexibility and productivity of NI tools have proven useful in getting a wind turbine control system prototype working quickly. The NI graphical system design platform, including NI LabVIEW and flexible off-the-shelf hardware, provides control system design engineers with one of the quickest paths to a working prototype. This resource kit contains various online resources for prototyping with NI tools.

Download the CompactRIO Machine Control Resource Kit

Contents include:

  • White paper on "Graphical System Design for Machine Control"
  • Webcast on "Building Low-Cost, Industrial Machine Control Systems with CompactRIO"
  • Customer applications for machine control using CompactRIO

Wind Turbine Control System Design

The LabVIEW graphical system design platform reduces development costs with the ability to quickly design, prototype, and deploy wind turbine control systems. The platform offers tight integration to off-the-shelf hardware with I/O for design and validation as well as the ability to deploy to custom hardware.

Embedded System Design

HIL Wind Turbine Simulation

With open hardware and software technologies that scale from low-cost PC-based testers to multicontroller, system integration test applications as well as the ability to provide test solutions from requirements definition to manufacturing test, the National Instruments HIL test platform reduces the time, cost, and risk in your control system development.

HIL Simulation

Power Inverter Control and Monitoring

National Instruments technologies play a key part in power inverter control and power quality monitoring. National Instruments embedded technologies and channel-to-channel isolation allow for both power inverter control as well as power quality monitoring for generator control loop feedback.

Power Quality Monitoring

Technical Tutorials

Case Studies