Experimental Validation on Using Drones for the Take-off and Landing Phases of an AWE System

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

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

Recent research results are gradually assessing and eliminating feasibility risks and improving the understanding of Airborne Wind Energy systems (AWE). One direction is to reduce their costs required for each generation unit compared to traditional wind turbines. AWE systems have also to cope with partially unpredictable wind to remain airborne and need tolandwhenwind conditions are poor. Landing and take-off are hard to automate and they increase risk of catastrophic failure. In the present work, the former theoretical solution based on drones for the take-off and landing phases of an on-ground power generation AWE System [1] is extended and validated experimentally on a benchmark of Gipsa-lab.

Domains: Electric power; Automatic

Audrey Schanen, Zakeye Azaki, Jonathan Dumon, Ahmad Hably, Nacim Meslem. Experimental Validation on Using Drones for the Take-off and Landing Phases of an AWE System. AWEC 2021 - 9th International Airborne Wind Energy Conference (AWEC 2021), Jun 2022, Milan, Italy. ⟨hal-03705735⟩