This page contains all our publications on Airborne Wind Energy
For a more complete list of general publications by HIGHWIND team members consult the KU Leuven Lirias system
Scientific papers
M. Zanon, S. Gros, J. Meyers, and M. Diehl. Airborne Wind Energy: Airfoil-Airmass Interaction. Proceedings of the 19th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control, 2014.
M. Zanon, G. Horn, S. Gros, and M. Diehl. Control of Dual-Airfoil Airborne Wind Energy Systems Based on Nonlinear MPC and MHE. Proceedings of the European Control Conference, 2014.
M. Zanon, S. Gros, J. Andersson, and M. Diehl. Airborne Wind Energy Based on Dual Airfoils. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 2013.
M. Vukov, A. Domahidi, H.J. Ferreau M. Morari and M. Diehl. Auto-generated Algorithms for Nonlinear Model Predictive Control on Long and on Short Horizons. In Proceedings of the 52nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Firenze, Italy, 2013.
J. Gillis and M. Diehl. A Positive Definiteness Preserving Discretization Method for nonlinear Lyapunov Differential Equations. In Proceedings of the 52nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Firenze, Italy, 2013.
S. Gros, M. Zanon, and M. Diehl. A Relaxation Strategy for the Optimization of Airborne Wind Energy Systems. In Proceedings of the European Control Conference, Zurich, Switzerland, 2013.
S. Gros, M. Zanon, and M. Diehl. Control of Airborne Wind Energy Systems Based on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control & Moving Horizon Estimation. In Proceedings of the European Control Conference, Zurich, Switzerland, 2013.
M. Zanon, S. Gros, and M. Diehl. Rotational Start-up of Tethered Airplanes Based on Nonlinear MPC and MHE. In Proceedings of the European Control Conference, Zurich, Switzerland, 2013.
S. Gros and M. Diehl. NMPC based on Huber Penalty Functions to Handle Large Deviations of Quadrature States. In Proceedings of the 2013 American Control Conference, Washinton DC, USA, 2013.
K. Geebelen, A. Wagner, S. Gros, J. Swevers and M. Diehl. Moving Horizon Estimation with a Huber Penalty Function for Robust Pose Estimation of Tethered Airplanes. In Proceedings of the 2013 American Control Conference, Washinton DC, USA, 2013.
S. Gros, R. Quirynen and M. Diehl. Aircraft Control based on Fast Non-linear MPC & Multiple-shooting. In Proceedings of the 51st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, Hawai, USA, 2012.
S. Gros and M. Diehl. Attitude Estimation Based on Inertial and Position Measurements. In Proceedings of the 51st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, Hawai, USA, 2012.
S. Gros, H. Ahmad, K. Geebelen and M. Diehl. In-flight Estimation of the Aerodynamic Roll Damping and Trim Angle for a Tethered Aircraft based on Multiple-shooting. System Identification Conference, 2012.
S. Gros, M. Zanon, M. Vukov, and M. Diehl. Nonlinear MPC and MHE for Mechanical Multi-Body Systems with Application to Fast Tethered Airplanes. In Proceedings of the 4th IFAC Nonlinear Model Predictive Control Conference, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, 2012.
J. Sternberg, J. Goit, S. Gros, J. Meyers and M. Diehl. Robust and Stable Periodic Flight of Power Generating Kite Systems in a Turbulent Wind Flow Field. In Proceedings of the 15th IFAC Workshop on Control Applications of Optimization, 2012.
J. Sternberg, S. Gros, B. Houska and M. Diehl. Approximate Robust Optimal Control of Periodic Systems with Invariants and High-Index Differential Algebraic Systems . In Proceedings of the 7th IFAC Symposium on Robust Control Design, 2012.
J. Sternberg, B. Houska, F. Logist, D. Telen, J. Van Impe and M. Diehl. A Toolkit for Efficient Computation of Sensitivities in Approximate Robust Optimal Control Problems. In Proceedings of the 7th IFAC Symposium on Robust Control Design, 2012.
S. Gros, M. Zanon, and M. Diehl. Orbit Control for a Power Generating Airfoil Based on Nonlinear MPC. In Proceedings of the 2012 American Control Conference, Montreal, Canada, 2012.
K. Geebelen, H. Ahmad, M. Vukov, S. Gros, J. Swevers, and M. Diehl. An experimental test set-up for launch/recovery of an Airborne Wind Energy (AWE) system. In Proceedings of the 2012 American Control Conference, Montreal, Canada, 2012.
J. Gillis, J. Goos, K. Geebelen, J. Swevers and M. Diehl. Optimal periodic control of power harvesting tethered airplanes: how to fly fast without wind and without propellor?. In Proceedings of the 2012 American Control Conference, Montreal, Canada, 2012.
J. Sternberg, B. Houska and M. Diehl. A Structure Exploiting Algorithm for Approximate Robust Optimal Control with Application to Power Generating Kites. In Proceedings of the 2012 American Control Conference, Montreal, Canada, 2012.
H.J. Ferreau, B. Houska, K. Geebelen and M. Diehl. Real-time control of a kite-carousel using an auto-generated nonlinear MPC algorithm. In Proceedings of the IFAC World Congress, 2011.
B. Houska and M. Diehl. Robustness and Stability Optimization of Power Generating Kite Systems in a Periodic Pumping Mode. In Proceedings of the IEEE Multi – Conference on Systems and Control, Yokohama, Japan, 2010.
M. Diehl and B. Houska. Windenergienutzung mit schnell fliegenden Flugdrachen: eine Herausforderung für die Optimierung und Regelung – Wind Power via Fast Flying Kites: a Challenge for Optimization and Control. Automatisierungstechnik Methoden und Anwendungen der Steuerungs-, Regelungs- und Informationstechnik, 57(10):525–533, 2009.
A. Ilzhoefer, B. Houska and M. Diehl. Nonlinear MPC of kites under varying wind conditions for a new class of large scale wind power generators. International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, 17 (2007), pp. 1590–1599.
B. Houska and M. Diehl. Optimal Control for Power Generating Kites. In Proc. 9th European Control Conference, pages 3560–3567, Kos, Greece, 2007. (CD-ROM).
B. Houska and M. Diehl. Optimal control of towing kites. In Proceedings of the 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pages 2693–2697, San Diego, USA, 2006.
Book chapters
M. Diehl. Airborne Wind Energy, Airborne Wind Energy: Basic Concepts and Physical Foundations. Springer, 2013.
K. Geebelen, M. Vukov, A. Wagner, H. Ahmad, M. Zanon, S. Gros, D. Vandepitte, J. Swevers and M. Diehl. Airborne Wind Energy, An experimental test setup for advanced estimation and control of an airborne wind energy system. Springer, 2013.
S. Gros and M. Diehl. Airborne Wind Energy, Modeling of AirborneWind Energy Systems in Natural Coordinates. Springer, 2013.
G. Horn, S. Gros and M. Diehl. Airborne Wind Energy, Numerical Trajectory Optimization for Airborne Wind Energy Systems Described by High Fidelity Aircraft Models. Springer, 2013.
M. Zanon, S. Gros and M. Diehl. Airborne Wind Energy, Model Predictive Control of Rigid-Airfoil Airborne Wind Energy Systems. Springer, 2013.
M. Diehl, J. Swevers and D. Vandepitte. Tijd, evolutie en duurzaamheid, Airborne windenergie – Snelle kites produceren groene stroom. Leuven University Press, 2013 (Dutch).
Master’s Theses
J. Stuyts and W. Vandermeulen. Electrical Energy Conversion System for Pumping Airborne Wind Energy. Master’s thesis, KU Leuven, June 2013.
B. Kerkhofs. Ontwerp van een vlieger voor energieopwekking met behulp van verankerde kites. Master’s thesis, KU Leuven, September 2013 (Dutch).
M. Clinckemaillie. An experimental set-up for energy generation using balanced kites. Master’s thesis, KU Leuven, June 2012.
K. Geebelen and J. Gillis. Modelling and control of rotational start-up phase of tethered aeroplanes for wind energy harvesting. Master’s thesis, KU Leuven, June 2010.
R. Paelinck. Kite Power. Master’s thesis, Artesis Hogeschool Antwerpen, 2010.
K. Ibens and K. Peeters. Modellering en controle van verankerde vliegtuigen. Master’s thesis, KU Leuven, 2009.
B. Houska. Robustness and Stability Optimization of Open-Loop Controlled Power Generating Kites. Master’s thesis, University of Heidelberg, 2007.
