Estimation of Unknown Aerodynamic Forces of an AWE System

Ahmad Hably (1) , Audrey Schanen (1) , Jonathan Dumon (2) , Nacim Meslem (3)

1 GIPSA-COPERNIC - GIPSA - COntrol, PErception, Robots, navigation and Intelligent Computing
2 GIPSA-Services - GIPSA-Services
3 GIPSA-MODUS - GIPSA - Modelling and Optimal Decision for Uncertain Systems

Airborne Wind Energy systems (AWE) represent a promising solution to environmental challenges that has revolutionized research in the wind industry. The studied AWE system in this work is equipped with a multicopter drone in order to perform take-off and landingmaneuvers. An estimation strategy based on an Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) is proposed to obtain precise information regarding the state vector of the system, the unknown forces that acting on it and its aerodynamic coefficients.

Domaines: Energie électrique; Automatique / Robotique

Ahmad Hably, Audrey Schanen, Jonathan Dumon, Nacim Meslem. Estimation of Unknown Aerodynamic Forces of an AWE System. AWEC 2021 - 9th International Airborne Wind Energy Conference (AWEC 2021), Jun 2022, Milan, Italy. ⟨hal-03705717⟩