A Comparative Study Between Fuzzy Logic and Fuzzy Sliding Mode Controller Applied to Wind Turbine Benchmark Model

Electricity generated from wind energy is increasing day by day globally; which requires us to give importance to the reliability of wind turbines so that the wind turbines continue to produce energy and keep the possibility of extracting the maximum power from the wind while ensuring the necessary operating performance, The work performed in this article presents a study of two types of FTC controller applied to wind turbine benchmark model. This work aims to investigate the effect of such a controller under a different scenario of sensors fault working in a full load zone. Moreover, a comparison analysis between the Fuzzy siding mode controller FSM and the fuzzy logic FL controller in terms of fault tolerance is presented. The proposed control approach for the variable-speed wind turbines is presented using a wind turbine Benchmark model of a three-blade horizontal axis variable speed with a nominal power of 4.8 MW.