Control of Dual-Airfoil Airborne Wind Energy systems based on nonlinear MPC and MHE

Zanon, Mario and Horn, Greg and Gros, Sebastien and Diehl, Moritz Control of Dual-Airfoil Airborne Wind Energy systems based on nonlinear MPC and MHE. In: European Control Conference, June 24-27, 2014, Strasbourg, France pp. 1801-1806. ISBN 978-3-9524269-1-3. (2014)

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Abstract

Airborne Wind Energy (AWE) systems generate energy by flying a tethered airfoil across the wind flow at a high velocity. Tethered flight is a fast, strongly nonlinear, unstable and constrained process, motivating control approaches based on fast Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) and state estimation approaches based on Moving Horizon Estimation (MHE). Dual-Airfoil AWE systems, i.e. systems with two airfoils attached to a Y-shaped tether have been shown to be more effective than systems based on a single airfoil. This paper proposes a control scheme for a dual-airfoil AWE system based on NMPC and MHE and studies its performance in a realistic scenario based on state-of-the-art turbulence models.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Identification Number:	10.1109/ECC.2014.6862238
Subjects:	T Technology > T Technology (General)
Research Area:	Computer Science and Applications
Depositing User:	Mario Zanon
Date Deposited:	12 Mar 2018 10:30
Last Modified:	12 Mar 2018 10:44
URI:	http://eprints.imtlucca.it/id/eprint/4020

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