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Autonomous Airborne Wind Energy Systems: Accomplishments and Challenges
Airborne wind energy (AWE) is a fascinating technology to convert wind power into electricity with an autonomous tethered aircraft. …
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Autonomous Airborne Wind Energy Systems: Accomplishments and Challenges
Competitiveness of a low specific power, low cut-out wind speed wind turbine in North and Central Europe towards 2050
This work is part of an ongoing study, creatively named the “LowWind Project” (Madsen et al., 2020), whose goal is to investigate at …
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Dominant Designs for Wings of Airborne Wind Energy Systems
This paper focuses on the design of the wings used in airborne wind energy systems. At the moment, two different designs are being …
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Faults in Modular Multilevel Cascade Converters–Part II: Fault Tolerance, Fault Detection and Diagnosis, and System Reconfiguration
Modular multilevel cascade converters (MMCCs) are considered a promising power electronics topology in industry. Their scalability …
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Six-degrees-of-freedom simulation model for future multi-megawatt airborne wind energy systems
Currently developed airborne wind energy systems have reached sizes of up to several hundred kilowatts. This paper presents the …
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Six-degrees-of-freedom simulation model for future multi-megawatt airborne wind energy systems
Configuration optimization and global sensitivity analysis of Ground-Gen and Fly-Gen Airborne Wind Energy Systems
This paper presents an analysis and optimization of Airborne Wind Energy Systems (AWESs), designed to maximize the Annual Energy …
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Control of a rigid wing pumping Airborne Wind Energy system in all operational phases
The control design of an airborne wind energy system with rigid aircraft, vertical take-off and landing, and pumping operation is …
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Control of a rigid wing pumping Airborne Wind Energy system in all operational phases
Exploring design dominance in early stages of the dominance process: The case of airborne wind energy
This paper is about Airborne Wind Energy Systems, a promising new wind power generating system that, although technologically possible …
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Non-Intrusive Load Management Under Forecast Uncertainty in Energy Constrained Microgrids
This paper addresses the problem of managing load under energy scarcity in islanded microgrids with multiple customers and distributed …
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Statistical impact of wind-speed ramp events on turbines, via observations and coupled fluid-dynamic and aeroelastic simulations
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Statistical impact of wind-speed ramp events on turbines, via observations and coupled fluid-dynamic and aeroelastic simulations
Enhancing Resilience of Airborne Wind Energy Systems Through Upset Condition Avoidance
Airborne wind energy (AWE) systems are tethered flying devices that harvest wind resources at higher altitudes, which are not …
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An engineering model for the induction of crosswind kite power systems
The present paper introduces a new, physically consistent definition of effective induction that should be used in engineering models …
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