TY  - CONF
TI  - Control of Dual-Airfoil Airborne Wind Energy systems based on nonlinear MPC and MHE
AV  - restricted
Y1  - 2014///
UR  - http://doi.org/10.1109/ECC.2014.6862238
M2  - Strasbourg, France
A1  - Zanon, Mario
A1  - Horn, Greg
A1  - Gros, Sebastien
A1  - Diehl, Moritz
SN  - 978-3-9524269-1-3
PB  - IEEE
SP  - 1801
N2  - 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.
ID  - eprints4020
T2  - European Control Conference
EP  - 1806
ER  -