eprintid: 4023
rev_number: 7
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datestamp: 2018-03-12 10:45:32
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creators_name: Zanon, Mario
creators_name: Gros, Sébastien
creators_name: Diehl, Moritz
creators_id: mario.zanon@imtlucca.it
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title: Model Predictive Control of Rigid-Airfoil Airborne Wind Energy Systems
ispublished: pub
subjects: T1
divisions: CSA
full_text_status: none
abstract: In order to allow for a reliable and lasting operation of Airborne Wind Energy systems, several problems need to be addressed. One of the most important challenges regards the control of the tethered airfoil during power generation. Tethered flight of rigid airfoils is a fast, strongly nonlinear, unstable and constrained process, and one promising way to address the control challenge is the use of Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) together with online parameter and state estimation based on Moving Horizon Estimation (MHE). In this paper, these techniques are introduced and their performance demonstrated in simulations of a 30 m wingspan tethered airplane with power generation in pumping mode.
date: 2013
date_type: published
series: Green Energy and Technology
publisher: Springer
pagerange: 219-233
id_number: doi:10.1007/978-3-642-39965-7_12
refereed: TRUE
isbn: 978-3-642-39965-7
issn: 1865-3529
book_title: Airborne Wind Energy
official_url: http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39965-7_12
citation:   Zanon, Mario and Gros, Sébastien and Diehl, Moritz  Model Predictive Control of Rigid-Airfoil Airborne Wind Energy Systems.   In:  Airborne Wind Energy.   Green Energy and Technology .  Springer, pp. 219-233.  ISBN 978-3-642-39965-7      (2013)