Patent ID: 7231282

Claim:
A method for the functional test of one wind turbine generator plant which comprises the following procedural steps: a control unit ( 54 ) for the wind turbine generator plant reads in actual values from at least one structural part of the wind turbine generator plant and generates control signals for actuators of the wind turbine generator plant, a simulation unit ( 45 ) has at least one input and at least one output as well as one or more mathematical models which depict the behaviour of one or more structural parts of the wind turbine generator plant, the control signals are applied to the input of the simulation unit and the modeled actual values of the models for the structural parts are applied to the output of the simulation unit, wherein the actual values of the simulation unit are applied to the input of the control unit and the control signals of the control unit are applied to the input of the simulation unit; the simulation unit models the actual values of the structural parts that result for the control signals applied, for certain initial conditions, the certain initial conditions being the actual values from at least one structural part of the wind turbine generator plant, the simulation unit generates the actual values in real time for the control signals applied, wherein the simulation unit further has a hardware emulation which exchanges data with the mathematical models of the structural parts of the wind turbine generator plant.