TY  - CONF
EP  - 142
T2  - American Control Conference (ACC), 2012
ID  - eprints4031
N2  - 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.
SP  - 137
A1  - Gros, Sébastien
A1  - Zanon, Mario
A1  - Diehl, Moritz
M2  - Montreal, QC, Canada
PB  - IEEE
SN  - 2378-5861
UR  - http://doi.org/10.1109/ACC.2012.6315367
AV  - restricted
TI  - Orbit control for a power generating airfoil based on nonlinear MPC
Y1  - 2012///
ER  -