TY  - CHAP
ID  - eprints4024
T2  - Airborne Wind Energy
EP  - 471
TI  - An Experimental Test Setup for Advanced Estimation and Control of an AirborneWind Energy System
AV  - none
Y1  - 2013///
UR  - http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39965-7_27
A1  - Geebelen, Kurt
A1  - Vukov, Milan
A1  - Zanon, Mario
A1  - Gros, Sébastien
A1  - Wagner, Andrew
A1  - Diehl, Moritz
A1  - Vandepitte, Dirk
A1  - Swevers, Jan
A1  - Ahmad, Hammad
PB  - Springer
SN  - 1865-3529
N2  - This chapter gives a detailed description of a test setup developed at KU Leuven for the launch and recovery of unpropelled tethered airplanes. The airplanes are launched by bringing them up to flying speed while attached by a tether to the end of a rotating arm. In the development of the setup, particular care was taken to allow experimental validation of advanced estimation and control techniques such as moving horizon estimation and model predictive control. A detailed overview of the hardware, sensors and software used on this setup is given in this chapter. The applied estimation and control techniques are outlined in this chapter as well, and an analysis of the closed loop performance is given.
T3  - Green Energy and Technology
SP  - 459
ER  -