2013 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Analysis and Flight Test Validation of High Performance AirborneWind Turbines
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Makani Power has developed an autonomous airborne wind turbine prototype incorporating a rigid wing with onboard generators. An overview of the design is given, and a simple characteristic power curve of the system is derived analytically. The performance of the system in flight tests as well as rigid body, finiteelement tether simulations is compared to that derived by the analytic formulation.