Flight Anomaly Detection for Airborne Wind Energy Systems

Journal Article (2020)
Author(s)

Volkan Salma (TU Delft - Aerospace Engineering)

Roland Schmehl (TU Delft - Aerospace Engineering)

Research Group
Wind Energy
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https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1618/3/032021 Final published version
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Publication Year
2020
Language
English
Research Group
Wind Energy
Issue number
3
Volume number
1618
Article number
032021
Event
Science of Making Torque from Wind 2020, TORQUE 2020 (2020-09-28 - 2020-10-02), Online, Virtual, Online, Netherlands
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Abstract

Airborne wind energy (AWE) systems use tethered flying devices to harvest wind energy beyond the height range accessible to tower-based turbines. AWE systems can produce the electric energy with a lower cost by operating in high altitudes where the wind regime is more stable and stronger. For the commercialization of AWE, system reliability and safety have become crucially important. To reach required availability and safety levels, we adapted an fault detection, isolation and recovery (FDIR) architecture from space industry. This work focuses on, "flight anomaly detection" layer of the FDIR. Tests verifies that proposed architecture is capable of detecting flight anomalies without generating false alarms.