eprintid: 4031
rev_number: 8
eprint_status: archive
userid: 87
dir: disk0/00/00/40/31
datestamp: 2018-03-12 10:57:31
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type: conference_item
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creators_name: Gros, Sébastien
creators_name: Zanon, Mario
creators_name: Diehl, Moritz
creators_id: 
creators_id: mario.zanon@imtlucca.it
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title: Orbit control for a power generating airfoil based on nonlinear MPC
ispublished: pub
subjects: T1
divisions: CSA
full_text_status: restricted
pres_type: paper
abstract: 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.
date: 2012
date_type: published
publisher: IEEE
pagerange: 137-142
event_title: American Control Conference (ACC), 2012
event_location: Montreal, QC, Canada
event_dates: June 27-29, 2012
event_type: conference
id_number: doi:10.1109/ACC.2012.6315367
refereed: TRUE
isbn: 978-1-4577-1096-4
issn: 2378-5861
book_title: American Control Conference (ACC), 2012
official_url: http://doi.org/10.1109/ACC.2012.6315367
citation:   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)  
document_url: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/4031/1/06315367.pdf