Abstract
This paper proposes the speed control of induction motor (IM) fed by wind turbine using imperialist competitive algorithm (ICA). The wind turbine plays as a prime mover to a connected direct current (DC) generator. Pulse width modulation (PWM) is used to get three-phase alternating current (AC) voltage from the output of DC generator. The proposed design problem of speed controller is established as an optimization problem. ICA is adopted to search for optimal controller parameters by minimizing the time domain objective function. The behavior of the proposed ICA has been estimated with the behavior of the conventional Ziegler-Nichols (ZN) and genetic algorithm (GA) to prove the superiority of the proposed ICA in tuning proportional plus integral (PI) controller. Also, the behavior of the proposed controller has been tested over a wide range of operating conditions. Simulation results confirm the better behavior of the optimized PI controller based on ICA compared with other algorithms.