Control of tethered airfoils for a new class of wind energy generator

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 4020-4026

  Canale, M ^a   Fagiano, L ^a   Ippolito, M ^b   Milanese, M ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b Sequoia Automation   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL THEORY; ELECTRIC DRIVES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POWER GENERATION;

WIND ENERGY GENERATOR; WIND MILLS;

AIRFOILS;

EID: 39649104059     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/cdc.2006.376775     Document Type: Conference Paper

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