A.G. Nadian - Electronics, Control, and Instrumentation Department Niroo Research Institute Tehran, Iran
A. Poureh - Electronics, Control, and Instrumentation Department Niroo Research Institute Tehran, Iran
M. Ahmadi - Electronics, Control, and Instrumentation Department Niroo Research Institute Tehran, Iran
B. Amini - Electronics, Control, and Instrumentation Department Niroo Research Institute Tehran, Iran

Development of a wind turbine test bench consisting of a wind turbine simulator and the actual control system is addressed in this paper. The simulated turbine model runs on an XPC target platform and the control system and the complete supervisory system are implemented on an embedded PC. The test bench is intended for testing the supervisory system and the control algorithms in real-time mode. The presented test bench makes it possible to test the control algorithms under hardware limitations of the hardware which it is implemented on. The test bench is used to test the pitch control, torque control andsupervisory system designed for a 2MW onshore wind turbine

Wind turbine, test bench, EtherCAT, HMI