eprintid: 4020 rev_number: 11 eprint_status: archive userid: 87 dir: disk0/00/00/40/20 datestamp: 2018-03-12 10:30:55 lastmod: 2018-03-12 10:44:22 status_changed: 2018-03-12 10:44:22 type: conference_item metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Zanon, Mario creators_name: Horn, Greg creators_name: Gros, Sebastien creators_name: Diehl, Moritz creators_id: mario.zanon@imtlucca.it creators_id: creators_id: creators_id: title: Control of Dual-Airfoil Airborne Wind Energy systems based on nonlinear MPC and MHE ispublished: pub subjects: T1 divisions: CSA full_text_status: restricted pres_type: paper abstract: 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. date: 2014 date_type: published publisher: IEEE pagerange: 1801-1806 event_title: European Control Conference event_location: Strasbourg, France event_dates: June 24-27, 2014 event_type: conference id_number: doi:10.1109/ECC.2014.6862238 refereed: TRUE isbn: 978-3-9524269-1-3 book_title: European Control Conference (ECC), 2014 official_url: http://doi.org/10.1109/ECC.2014.6862238 citation: 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) document_url: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/4020/1/06862238.pdf