Control of an airborne wind energy system with a Magnus effect

Ahmad Hably (1) , Jonathan Dumon (2) , Garrett Smith (3)

1 GIPSA-SYSCO - GIPSA - Systèmes non linéaires et complexité
2 GIPSA-Services - GIPSA-Services
3 Wind Fisher [Colomiers, FR]

The control of an airborne wind energy system with a Magnus effect device has been studied. The proposed strategy aims to control the amount of the output energy produced for a given cycle. The control scheme has been applied numerically and experimentally on a small scale indoor setup of Gipsa-lab, and validated numerically for Omnidea's experimental platform. Results have shown the good performance of the proposed control strategy.

Domaines: Automatique / Robotique

Ahmad Hably, Jonathan Dumon, Garrett Smith. Control of an airborne wind energy system with a Magnus effect. ACC 2016 - American Control Conference, Jul 2016, Boston, MA, United States. ⟨10.1109/ACC.2016.7526142⟩. ⟨hal-01272253⟩