Espen Oland

Head of Research and Development

Kitemill AS

Since June 2024, Espen Oland is Head of Research and Development at Kitemill. From 2017 until 2023 he was Control System Manager and Product Development Manager at the same company. He is also an Associate Professor at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.

Interests

Airborne Wind Energy
Modeling and Simulation
Flight Control

Education

PhD in ngineering Cybernetics, 2014
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
MSc in Technology, Space Technology, 2008
Narvik University College (HiN)
BSc in Engineering, Space Technology, 2006
Narvik University College (HiN)

Selected publications

Tareg Mohammed, Espen Oland, Lorenzo Fagiano (2024). Fault Tolerant Flight Control for the Traction Phase of Pumping Airborne Wind Energy Systems. International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems

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Tareg Mohammed, Jørgen Busk, Espen Oland, Lorenzo Fagiano (2024). Large-Scale Reverse Pumping for Rigid-Wing Airborne Wind Energy Systems. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

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Lorenzo Fagiano, Manfred Quack, Florian Bauer, Lode Carnel, Espen Oland (2022). Autonomous Airborne Wind Energy Systems: Accomplishments and Challenges. Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems

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Sebastian Rapp, Roland Schmehl, Espen Oland, Thomas Haas (2019). Cascaded Pumping Cycle Control for Rigid Wing Airborne Wind Energy Systems. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

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Sebastian Rapp, Roland Schmehl, Espen Oland, Sture Smidt, Thomas Haas, Johan Meyers (2019). A Modular Control Architecture for Airborne Wind Energy Systems. Proceedings of the AIAA Scitech 2019

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