Florian Bauer

Florian Bauer

CTO and Cofounder

Kitekraft GmbH

Trained as an electrical and control engineer, Florian Bauer has more than eight years experience in airborne wind energy research and technology. He has published more than a dozen research papers about the technology and has five patents pending. At kiteKRAFT he is responsible for the systems engineering framework consisting of real-time control-, simulation-, and AWE power plant design optimization C++ software framework.

Interests
  • Airborne Wind Energy
  • Electrical Engineering
Education
  • PhD in Airborne Wind Energy, 2020

    Technical University of Munich

  • MSc in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, 2013

    Technical University of Munich

  • BEng in Renewable Energies, 2012

    University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld

Selected publications

Florian Bauer, Christoph Drexler, André Frirdich, Maximilian Isensee, Lukas Willinger, Jorge Córdova, Filippo Campagnolo (2024). An Update on Kitekraft's Progress. 10th international Airborne Wind Energy Conference (AWEC 2024): Book of Abstracts

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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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Florian Bauer, Daniel Petzold, Ralph M Kennel, Filippo Campagnolo, Roland Schmehl (2019). Control of a Drag Power Kite over the Entire Wind Speed Range. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

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Simon Watson, Alberto Moro, Vera Reis, Charalampos Baniotopoulos, Stephan Barth, Gianni Bartoli, Florian Bauer, Elisa Boelman, Dennis Bosse, Antonello Cherubini, Alessandro Croce, Lorenzo Fagiano, Marco Fontana, Adrian Gambier, Konstantinos Gkoumas, Christopher Golightly, Mikel Iribas Latour, Peter Jamieson, John Kaldellis, Andrew Macdonald, Jimmy Murphy, Michael Muskulus, Francesco Petrini, Luca Pigolotti, Flemming Rasmussen, Philippe Schild, Roland Schmehl, Nafsika Stavridou, John Tande, Nigel Taylor, Thomas Telsnig, Ryan Wiser (2019). Future emerging technologies in the wind power sector: A European perspective. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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Florian Bauer, Christoph M. Hackl, Keyue Smedley, Ralph M. Kennel (2018). Crosswind Kite Power with Tower. Airborne Wind Energy: Advances in Technology Development and Research

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Florian Bauer, Ralph M. Kennel, Christoph M. Hackl, Filippo Campagnolo, Michael Patt, Roland Schmehl (2018). Drag power kite with very high lift coefficient. Renewable Energy

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Florian Bauer, Ralph M. Kennel (2018). Fault-Tolerant Power Electronic System for Drag Power Kites. Journal of Renewable Energy

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Florian Bauer, Christoph M. Hackl, Keyue Smedley, Ralph M. Kennel (2018). Multicopter-Based Launching and Landing of Lift Power Kites. Airborne Wind Energy: Advances in Technology Development and Research

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