Topological modeling of a wind turbine

Abstract

Undeniably, the focus of several works revolved around finding a process of unification to follow along the modeling of mechatronic systems. This paper is a part of a general research designed to apply topology for the modeling of complex mechatronic systems. Notably, a topological approach to model a Wind Turbine is adopted in this study. The Wind Turbine model under study is modeled using a topological approach based on the concepts of topological collections and transformations in order to dissociate the topological structure from its behavior. In this paper the MGS (Modeling of General Systems) language is employed. In fact, MGS allows the implementation as well as the linking of topological graph and its local behavior laws. The topological collections are adopted to specify the interconnection laws of the model of the Wind Turbine and the transformations are employed to specify the local behavior laws of its components. In order to validate this specific application of the topological approach to a complex mechatronic model, results are presented and compared with those obtained from the application of MODELICA language using Dymola solver. Since satisfactory results are gathered, this topological modeling is used as a unifying model for the Wind Turbine.