relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/4031/
title: Orbit control for a power generating airfoil based on nonlinear MPC
creator: Gros, Sébastien
creator: Zanon, Mario
creator: Diehl, Moritz
subject: T Technology (General)
description: The Airborne Wind Energy paradigm proposes to generate energy by flying a tethered airfoil across the wind flow. An essential problem posed by Airborne Wind Energy is the control of the tethered airfoil trajectory during power generation. Tethered flight is a fast, strongly nonlinear, unstable and constrained process, motivating control approaches based on fast Nonlinear Model Predictive Control. In this paper, a computationally efficient 6-DOF control model for a high performance, large-scale, rigid airfoil is proposed. A control scheme based on receding-horizon Nonlinear Model Predictive Control to track reference trajectories is applied to the proposed model. In order to make a real-time application of Nonlinear Model Predictive Control possible, a Real-Time Iteration scheme is proposed and its performance investigated.
publisher: IEEE
date: 2012
type: Conference or Workshop Item
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/4031/1/06315367.pdf
identifier:   Gros, Sébastien and Zanon, Mario and Diehl, Moritz  Orbit control for a power generating airfoil based on nonlinear MPC.  In: American Control Conference (ACC), 2012, June 27-29, 2012, Montreal, QC, Canada pp. 137-142. ISSN 2378-5861. ISBN 978-1-4577-1096-4.      (2012)  
relation: http://doi.org/10.1109/ACC.2012.6315367
relation: doi:10.1109/ACC.2012.6315367