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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. …
Lorenzo Fagiano
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Manfred Quack
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Florian Bauer
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Lode Carnel
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Espen Oland
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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 …
Philip Swisher
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Juan Pablo Murcia Leon
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Juan Gea-Bermúdez
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Matti Koivisto
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Helge Aagaard Madsen
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Marie Münster
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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 …
Silke Van Der Burg
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Maarten F. M. Jurg
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Flore M. Tadema
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Linda Kamp
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Geerten Van De Kaa
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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 …
Félix Rojas
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Cristóbal Jerez
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Christoph Hackl
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Oliver Kalmbach
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Javier Pereda
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Jonathan Lillo
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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 …
Dylan Eijkelhof
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Roland Schmehl
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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 …
Filippo Trevisi
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Michael McWilliam
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Mac Gaunaa
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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 …
Davide Todeschini
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Lorenzo Fagiano
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Claudio Micheli
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Aldo Cattano
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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 …
Geerten Van De Kaa
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Linda Kamp
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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 …
Jonathan T. Lee
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Sean Anderson
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Claudio Vergara
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Duncan S. Callaway
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Statistical impact of wind-speed ramp events on turbines, via observations and coupled fluid-dynamic and aeroelastic simulations
Mark Kelly
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Søren Juhl Andersen
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Ásta Hannesdóttir
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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 …
Sebastian Rapp
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Roland Schmehl
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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 …
Mac Gaunaa
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Alexander Meyer Forsting
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Filippo Trevisi
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