relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/4020/
title: Control of Dual-Airfoil Airborne Wind Energy systems based on nonlinear MPC and MHE
creator: Zanon, Mario
creator: Horn, Greg
creator: Gros, Sebastien
creator: Diehl, Moritz
subject: T Technology (General)
description: Airborne Wind Energy (AWE) systems generate energy by flying a tethered airfoil across the wind flow at a high velocity. Tethered flight is a fast, strongly nonlinear, unstable and constrained process, motivating control approaches based on fast Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) and state estimation approaches based on Moving Horizon Estimation (MHE). Dual-Airfoil AWE systems, i.e. systems with two airfoils attached to a Y-shaped tether have been shown to be more effective than systems based on a single airfoil. This paper proposes a control scheme for a dual-airfoil AWE system based on NMPC and MHE and studies its performance in a realistic scenario based on state-of-the-art turbulence models.
publisher: IEEE
date: 2014
type: Conference or Workshop Item
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/4020/1/06862238.pdf
identifier:   Zanon, Mario and Horn, Greg and Gros, Sebastien and Diehl, Moritz  Control of Dual-Airfoil Airborne Wind Energy systems based on nonlinear MPC and MHE.  In: European Control Conference, June 24-27, 2014, Strasbourg, France pp. 1801-1806.  ISBN 978-3-9524269-1-3.      (2014)  
relation: http://doi.org/10.1109/ECC.2014.6862238
relation: doi:10.1109/ECC.2014.6862238