Claim: Kites in a MAWES need to be able to: CLAMP onto the tether and LATCH onto the previous kite + a discussion on how to do this + a first mention of stackable kites + a concept for automatic launch of a soft kite train

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This is the video which shows the extraordinary difference in stability which the top net brings.

It starts out without a top net - - chaos - the kites are going everywhere
Then it re-runs with a topnet - - order - the kites are stable (this is the exact same range of random force vector acting as the lift kite resultant on the top end of the tether where the lift kites are)
and again without…

It shows a 5x deviation difference from original setpoint.

So even though you may loose control of your lift kite - With a top net It’s not going to drift into the path of neighbour kites

I should probably re record it in a higher fidelity and explaining the algorithm more

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