FPGA-based smart system architectural design for characterizing and controlling wind turbine in electrical power generation

The prototype of wind turbine design very important to be tested in the field for figuring the characteristic of the power transfer performances. The smart system design is proposed as a testbench apparatus to assist and facilitate for developing and extending the wind turbine design which consists the data acquisition system and the system control to be embedded into the recent FPGA-chip will become a compact device placed in wind turbine housing. In operation, it can be used as a controller for getting a maximum mechanical power transfer at normal, over and emergency of wind speed conditions and as a wake-up system when in the idle state. The whole system design is involved a MicroBlaze Processor and four digital controllers, which is embedded into a single chip of FPGA. The controller is realized as the hardware IP-core which can work in real-time to be interfaced into MicroBlaze processor. The software system will be used for managing the whole processing of the data acquisition system and the controller executed by the MicroBlaze processor. The whole data of wind turbine characterize periodically will be saved into solid-state memory which is ready send to the computer system on the ground.