A work in progress video of closed loop kite experiments with NMPC and MHE
Footage of closed loop experiments
https://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~highwind/?page_id=173
Note that the older links going to …kuleuven.be/optec/files/… seem to be dead.
An appearance in a Belgian (Canvas) documentary (mentioned on https://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~highwind/?page_id=98, see also the other tabs): Alles Kan Schoner Deel 2
At 0:12: “What we see here is an airplane with an arm”
And, at 2:53: "The method we are studying, what we actually envision, is a rotational takeoff".
Prof. Dr. Moritz Diehl invests a lot in this type of research.
Among the numerous links involving Moritz Diehl, there is a publication available on https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260586228_Airborne_Wind_Energy_Based_on_Dual_Airfoils
Airborne Wind Energy Based on Dual Airfoils
Though I am skeptical of such things… It’s important to note that nearly anything “can” work… It’s a good thing Makani allowed everyone to use their patents in this regard… It does look familiar.
GAMM 2015 - 11) Plenary Lecture - Prof. Moritz Diehl
Paper based on talk: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/zamm.201500180https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/zamm.201500180
More recent lecture:
Moritz Diehl’s talk 1/2: Nonlinear MPC and distributed multiple shooting method
Moritz Diehl’s talk 2/2: Nonlinear MPC and distributed multiple shooting method
A short video with Moritz Diehl, from this week. I’d say ignore the AI slop clips from the video creator, but the video creator is the university of Freiburg: lugwindkraft - Moritz Diehl Über Die Vielversprechende Alternative Zum Klassischen Windrad
Among other things, the narrator says the university of Aachen is going to make the kiteplanes. MW-AWE | FSD | RWTH Aachen University | DE
