Abstract: Example embodiments may include: obtaining, from a database, representations of tasks, agents, and limits on how the tasks can be distributed to the agents; based on attributes of the tasks, the agents, and the limits, determining compatibility measures of pairs of the tasks and the agents; based on the compatibility measures, determining a distribution of the tasks and the agents to a plurality of partitions; until a stopping criterion is satisfied, iteratively modifying the distribution to increase a total of the compatibility measures within each of the partitions or across all of the partitions; and generating, by a solver, a plurality of schedules that govern performance of the tasks by the agents respectively within each of the partitions.

Abstract: The present invention provides an improvement for a wind turbine (20) having at least one blade (21) mounted on a hub (22) for controlled rotation about a blade axis (yb-yb) to vary the pitch of the blade relative to an airstream. The hub is mounted on a nacelle (23) for rotation about a hub axis (xh-xh). The wind turbine includes a main pitch control system for selectively controlling the pitch of the blade, and/or a safety pitch control system for overriding the main blade pitch control system and for causing the blade to move toward a feathered position in the event of an overspeed or fault condition.

Abstract: The present invention provides an improvement for a wind turbine (20) having at least one blade (21) mounted on a hub (22) for controlled rotation about a blade axis (yb-yb) to vary the pitch of the blade relative to an airstream. The hub is mounted on a nacelle (23) for rotation about a hub axis (xh-xh). The wind turbine includes a main pitch control system for selectively controlling the pitch of the blade, and/or a safety pitch control system for overriding the main blade pitch control system and for causing the blade to move toward a feathered position in the event of an overspeed or fault condition.