Mario A. Rotea

rotea@utdallas.edu
Phone: 972-883-2720
Mail Box: ECW 31
Office: ECSW 3.355G
800 West Campbell Rd.
Richardson, TX 75080-3021

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Professor, Mechanical Engineering
DIRECTOR, UTD WIND
Biography
SITE DIRECTOR, WINDSTAR

Education

PhD, Control Science and Dynamical Systems, University of Minnesota

MS, Electrical Engineering, University of Minnesota

BS, Electronics Engineering, National University of Rosario

Research Interests

Optimization and control of wind energy systems; control theory.

Journal Publications, Book Chapters, and Books (Last Five Years)

• Aju, E.J., Kumar, D., Leffingwell, M., Rotea, M.A., Jin, Y. The influence of yaw misalignment on turbine power output fluctuations and unsteady aerodynamic loads within wind farms (2023) Renewable Energy, 215, art. no. 118894. DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2023.06.015
• Kumar, D., Rotea, M.A., Aju, E.J., Jin, Y. Wind plant power maximization via extremum seeking yaw control: A wind tunnel experiment (2023) Wind Energy, 26 (3), pp. 283-309. DOI: 10.1002/we.2799
• Liu, C., Gupta, A., Rotea, M.A. Wind Turbine Gust Load Alleviation with Active Flow Control (2022) Energies, 15 (17), art. no. 6474. DOI: 10.3390/en15176474
• Nanos, E.M., Bottasso, C.L., Campagnolo, F., Mühle, F., Letizia, S., Valerio Iungo, G., Rotea, M.A. Design, steady performance and wake characterization of a scaled wind turbine with pitch, torque and yaw actuation (2022) Wind Energy Science, 7 (3), pp. 1263-1287. DOI: 10.5194/wes-7-1263-2022
• Chetan, M., Sakib, M.S., Griffith, D.T., Gupta, A., Rotea, M.A. Design of a 3.4-MW wind turbine with integrated plasma actuator-based load control (2022) Wind Energy, 25 (3), pp. 517-536. DOI: 10.1002/we.2684
• Kumar, D., Rotea, M.A. Wind Turbine Power Maximization Using Log-Power Proportional-Integral Extremum Seeking (2022) Energies, 15 (3), art. no. 1004. DOI: 10.3390/en15031004
• Bernardoni, F., Ciri, U., Rotea, M.A., Leonardi, S. Identification of wind turbine clusters for effective real time yaw control optimization (2021) Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, 13 (4), art. no. 043301. DOI: 10.1063/5.0036640
• Gupta, A., Rotea, M.A., Chetan, M., Sakib, M.S., Griffith, D.T. A methodology for robust load reduction in wind turbine blades using flow control devices (2021) Energies, 14 (12), art. no. 3500. DOI: 10.3390/en14123500
• Xiao, Y., Fahimi, B., Rotea, M.A., Li, Y. Multiple Reference Frame-Based Torque Ripple Reduction in DFIG-DC System (2020) IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 35 (5), art. no. 8840974, pp. 4971-4983. DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2019.2941957
• Ciri, U., Leonardi, S., Rotea, M.A. Evaluation of log-of-power extremum seeking control for wind turbines using large eddy simulations (2019) Wind Energy, 22 (7), pp. 992-1002. DOI: 10.1002/we.2336
• Xiao, Y., Li, Y., Rotea, M.A. CART3 Field Tests for Wind Turbine Region-2 Operation with Extremum Seeking Controllers (2019) IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 27 (4), art. no. 8345638, pp. 1744-1752. DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2018.2825450

Major Honors and Awards

• Federal Research Innovation and ExpeNditures Dynamo (FRIENDs) of the Office of Research and Innovation for federal research expenditures in excess of $500,000 (FY 2022, 2021).
• Fellow, Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), for contributions to robust and optimal control of multivariable systems, 2007.
• Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation, 1993.
• Seed for Success Award Winner, periods April to June 2004 and April to June 2005, for attracting research grants in excess of $1M to Purdue University.
• CT Sun Excellence in Research Award, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University, 2006.

Selected Lectures

• “Log-of-Power Extremum Seeking Control of Wind Energy Systems,” Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), December 2, 2022
• “Extremum Seeking Control of Wind Energy Systems” TU Delft Wind Energy Institute Lecture, June 24, 2021.
• “Systems and Control for Onshore and Offshore Wind Energy Production,” M.A. Rotea, Tutorial on Systems and Control Opportunities for Decarbonization of the Energy System, 21st International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) World Congress 2020, July 11-17, 2020.
• “Extremum Seeking Control of Wind Energy Systems,” M.A. Rotea, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Wind Workforce Development Series, October 8, 2020, https://www.nrel.gov/wind/wind-workforce-development-series.html
• “Control of Wind Energy Systems,” M.A. Rotea, Inaugural WindSTAR Webinar, The University of Massachusetts, Lowell, June 19, 2020, https://echo360.org/media/d1efb951-51cf-49b9-9d7d-cd10dbee19a2/public
• “Wind Energy at UT Dallas,” M.A. Rotea, Center Stage Seminar Series, UT Dallas, Richardson, June 17, 2020, https://research.utdallas.edu/blog/center-stage-seminar-series-with-dr-mario-rotea