Editorial To Tame the Wind: Advanced Control Applications in Wind Energy

The aim of this special section is to illustrate the potential of advanced control methods to improve wind power technologies, through a collection of contributions concerned with several aspects including mitigation of tower vibration and fatigue loads, wind preview control, estimation of rotor effective wind speed, identification of rotor dynamics, fault tolerant control, wind farm control, and airborne wind energy. A significant number of contributions in the section are concerned with mitigation of vibrations and load reduction of wind turbines, in different frameworks and with different actuators and control approaches.