Performance assessment of a rigid wing Airborne Wind Energy pumping system

G. Licitra, J. Koenemann, A. Bürger, P. Williams, R. Ruiterkamp and M. Diehl

Energy, 2019, vol. 173, issue C, 569-585

Abstract: This paper presents an Optimal Control Problem (OCP) tailored to assess the system performance of a rigid wing Airborne Wind Energy (AWE) pumping system prior to real flight tests. The proposed method is validated against experimental data obtained using a small prototype designed by the Dutch company Ampyx Power B.V. Within such analysis, it is shown that a non-optimized closed-loop flight control system can generate power to within 10% of the open-loop optimal flight trajectories. Additionally, results demonstrate that the system efficiency does not depend on the trajectory topology, though a significant change in terms of trajectory shape is observed for different wind speeds as a result of trajectory constraints.

Keywords: Airborne Wind Energy; Flight trajectory optimization; Differential algebraic equations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2019.02.064

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