relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/4025/
title: Airborne Wind Energy Based on Dual Airfoils
creator: Zanon, Mario
creator: Gros, Sebastien
creator: Andersson, Joel
creator: Diehl, Moritz
subject: T Technology (General)
description: The airborne wind energy (AWE) paradigm proposes to generate energy by flying a tethered airfoil across the wind flow at a high velocity. Although AWE enables flight in higher altitude and stronger wind layers, the extra drag generated by the tether motion imposes a significant limit to the overall system efficiency. To address this issue, two airfoils with a shared tether can reduce overall system drag. Although this technique may improve the efficiency of AWE systems, such improvement can only be achieved through properly balancing the system trajectories and parameters. This brief tackles that problem using optimal control. A generic procedure for modeling multiple-airfoil systems with equations of minimal complexity is proposed. A parametric study shows that at small and medium scales, dual-airfoil systems are significantly more efficient than single-airfoil systems, but they are less advantageous at very large scales.
publisher: IEEE
date: 2013
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
rights: cc_by_nc
identifier: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/4025/1/12-83.pdf
identifier:   Zanon, Mario and Gros, Sebastien and Andersson, Joel and Diehl, Moritz  Airborne Wind Energy Based on Dual Airfoils.  IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 21 (4).  pp. 1215-1222.  ISSN 1063-6536      (2013)  
relation: http://doi.org/10.1109/TCST.2013.2257781
relation: doi:10.1109/TCST.2013.2257781