High altitude wind energy generation using controlled power kites

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 279-293

  Canale, Massimo ^a   Fagiano, Lorenzo ^a   Milanese, Mario ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Constrained control; Nonlinear systems; Predictive control; Renewable energy; Wind energy

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINED CONTROL; CONSTRAINED CONTROLS; PREDICTIVE CONTROL; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; WIND ENERGY;

AERODYNAMIC DRAG; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

WIND POWER;

EID: 77649183962     PISSN: 10636536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2009.2017933     Document Type: Article

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