Loss-Minimizing Model Predictive Control for the Power Conversion System of an Airborne Wind Energy System

An Aircraft-Integrated Control System Based on Bridle Actuation for AWE Machines

A Small-Scale and Multipurpose Airborne Wind Energy Prototype

Fluid-Structure Interaction Analysis of a Rigid-Framed Delta Kite for Airborne Wind Energy

Status of UC3M Testbed for the Aerodynamic Characterization of Kites Applied to Airborne Wind Energy Systems

A Semi-Empirical Aerodynamic Model Based on Dynamic Stall for Rigid-Framed Delta Kites during Figure-of-Eight Maneuvers

A Semi-Empirical Aerodynamic Model Based on Dynamic Stall for Rigid-Framed Delta Kites during Figure-of-Eight Maneuvers

A lagrangian flight simulator for airborne wind energy systems

A parallelized flight simulator for the dynamic analysis of airborne wind energy (AWE) systems for ground- and fly-generation configurations is presented. The mechanical system comprises a kite or fixed-wing drone equipped with rotors and linked to the ground by a flexible tether. The time-dependent control vector of the simulator mimics real...

Flight-Path Reconstruction and Flight Test of Four-Line Power Kites

A flight-path reconstruction algorithm for tethered aircraft, which is based on an extended Kalman filter, is presented. The algorithm is fed by the measurements of a set of onboard and ground-based instruments and provides the optimal estimation of the system state-space trajectory, which includes typical aircraft variables such as position and...

Experimental Setup to Study Airborne Wind Energy Generation Using a Train of Kites

Application of the Estimation-Before-Modeling Method to the Aerodynamic Characterization of Power Kites

Kite Flight Simulators Based on Minimal Coordinate Formulations

Determination of Optimal Control Laws in Airborne Wind Energy Scenarios With a Self-Consistent Kite Dynamics Model

Modeling and dynamics of a two-line kite

A mathematical model of a kite connected to the ground by two straight tethers of varying lengths is presented and used to study the traction force generated by kites flying in cross-wind conditions. The equations of motion are obtained by using a Lagrangian formulation, which yields a low-order system of ordinary differential equations free of...