%D 2013 %C Zurich, Switzerland %L eprints4042 %A S?bastien Gros %A Mario Zanon %A Moritz Diehl %K nonlinear control systems;optimal control;optimisation;power generation control;wind power plants;Newton-type techniques;airborne wind energy systems;homotopy strategy;industrial viability;nonlinear coupled systems;optimal control;optimization;relaxation strategy;Aerodynamics;Drag;Feedback loop;Optimization;Trajectory;Vectors;airborne wind energy;flight control;non-convex optimization;optimal control %T A relaxation strategy for the optimization of Airborne Wind Energy systems %P 1011-1016 %I IEEE %B European Control Conference (ECC), 2013