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2013 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Numerical Trajectory Optimization for Airborne Wind Energy Systems Described by High Fidelity Aircraft Models
Authors : Greg Horn, Sébastien Gros, Moritz Diehl
Published in: Airborne Wind Energy
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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In order to study design tradeoffs in the development of an AWE system, it is useful to develop a code to optimize a trajectory for arbitrary objective function and constraints. We present a procedure for using direct collocation to optimize such a trajectory where a model is specified as a set of differential–algebraic equations. The six degree of freedom single-kite, pumping-mode AWE model developed in
Chap. 10
is summarized, and two typical periodic optimal control problems are formulated and solved: maximum power and number of cycles per retraction. Finally, a procedure for optimally transitioning between two fixed trajectories is presented.