Wind energy has the highest development rates of renewables. The increasing complexity of wind turbine (WT) systems requires careful analysis and design with thorough testing and certification procedures. Hardware emulators contribute to safe and cost-effective assessment and testing of WT in research and industry. Most of the available emulators concentrate on emulating electrical subsystems with simplified mechanical models. In this paper, a real-time (RT) heterogeneous emulator that combines RT discrete-time step simulation and a high-fidelity linear parameter-varying model of a utility-scale WT system is proposed and implemented on a heterogeneous CPU/GPU platform. The RT emulator is built on an embedded NVIDIA Jetson TK1 board for a National Renewable Energy Laboratory 5-MW WT as a case study. The proposed emulator is capable of further integration of electrical models and control systems of WT.

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高保真实用规模变速变桨风力涡轮机的实时异构仿真器

风能具有最高的可再生能源发展率。风力涡轮机（WT）系统日益复杂，需要进行仔细的分析和设计，并进行全面的测试和认证程序。硬件仿真器有助于在研究和行业中对WT进行安全且具有成本效益的评估和测试。大多数可用的仿真器都专注于使用简化的机械模型来仿真电气子系统。本文提出了一种实时（RT）异构仿真器，该仿真器结合了RT离散时间步长仿真和实用规模的WT系统的高保真线性参数变化模型，并在异构CPU / GPU平台上实现。RT模拟器基于嵌入式NVIDIA Jetson TK1板构建，用于案例研究的国家可再生能源实验室5 MW WT。