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T1 A constraint-free flight simulator package for airborne wind energy systems
A1 Sánchez Arriaga, Gonzalo
A1 Pastor Rodríguez, Alejandro
A1 Borobia Moreno, Ricardo
A1 Schmehl, Roland
AB The LAgrangian Kite SimulAtor (LAKSA) is a freely available software for the dynamic analysis of tethered flying vehicles, such as kites and fixed-wing drones, applied to airborne wind energy generation. This software comprises four simulators. The one, two and four-line simulators, which consider flexible but inelastic tethers, are based on minimal coordinate Lagragian formulations and can be used for the analysis of fly and ground generation systems, kite-based traction systems, and kitesurfing applications, respectively. The configuration of the mechanical system in the fourth simulator can be defined by the user, who can select the number of flying vehicles and the properties of the elastic and flexible tethers linking them. In all the software tools, the kites or tethered fixed-wing drones are represented as rigid bodies and the dynamic equations of the tether-bridle-vehicle systems, together with the user-defined and time-dependent control variables, are solved self-consistently. Academic and research analysis can take advantage of the modularity of the simulators and their inputs and outputs interfaces, which follow a common and user-friendly architecture.
PB IOP
SN 1742-6588
YR 2018
FD 2018-06-19
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/28540
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/28540
LA eng
NO Proceeding of: 7th International Conference "The Science of Making Torque from Wind" (TORQUE 2018), Milano, 20-22 June, 2018.
NO This work was supported by the Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad ofSpain and the European Regional Development Fund under the project ENE2015-69937-R (MINECO/FEDER, UE). GSA work is supported by the Ministerio de Economía, Industriay Competitividad of Spain under the Grant RYC-2014-15357. RS is acknowledging the receipt of funding from the European Unions Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 642682 for the ITN project AWESCO and the grant agreement No. 691173 for the Fast Track to Innovation project REACH.
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