Patent 8105029 was granted and assigned to Siemens Aktiengesellschaft on January, 2012 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method an apparatus of automatically controlling a wind turbine re provided. of: A time-series of measurement values of the aerodynamic flow property of the wind turbine rotor blade is determined; a predictive wind field model representing a structure of a wind field acting on the wind turbine rotor blade is generated based on the time-series of measurement values, and a control value is generated based on the wind-field model.