Weight optimization of a machine for airborne wind turbines

IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 950-958

  Gammeter, Christoph ^a   Drapela, Yannick ^a   Tuysuz, Arda ^a   Kolar, Johann W ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODELS; COST FUNCTIONS; INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS;

AXIAL FLUX MACHINES; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; DIRECT SEARCH METHODS; ELECTRICAL MACHINE; MINIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; POWER-TO-WEIGHT RATIOS; RADIAL-FLUX MACHINES; WEIGHT OPTIMIZATION;

WIND TURBINES;

EID: 84983177602     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2014.7048616     Document Type: Conference Paper

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