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Flight testing of power kites
Advent emerging economies and the constant world population growth lead to think of alternatives to fossil fuels to generate usable power. These sources of energy are not only harmful to the environment but finite, and they are about to be exhausted. Airborne Wind Energy (AWE) is a new way to produce clean energy that promises to be more efficient than current renewable sources. Its aim is to harvest the energy of the stable and stronger winds in the upper layers of the atmosphere, which are unreachable for the conventional wind turbines used nowadays. There are several companies and institutions currently working on the development of this type of energy, being Universidad Carlos III de Madrid one of them. This university is developing an AWE system composed of two kite-surf kites connected to a control bar by means of several tethers. The objective of this thesis is to contribute to this research characterizing these kites with a CAD software and designing, implementing and testing a weather station which is able to measure the wind velocity (its magnitude and heading). Results will be used on the one hand to validate a Matlab simulator of the kites and on the other hand to make progress in the future flight test campaigns. ; Ingeniería Aeroespacial
Flight testing of power kites
Advent emerging economies and the constant world population growth lead to think of alternatives to fossil fuels to generate usable power. These sources of energy are not only harmful to the environment but finite, and they are about to be exhausted. Airborne Wind Energy (AWE) is a new way to produce clean energy that promises to be more efficient than current renewable sources. Its aim is to harvest the energy of the stable and stronger winds in the upper layers of the atmosphere, which are unreachable for the conventional wind turbines used nowadays. There are several companies and institutions currently working on the development of this type of energy, being Universidad Carlos III de Madrid one of them. This university is developing an AWE system composed of two kite-surf kites connected to a control bar by means of several tethers. The objective of this thesis is to contribute to this research characterizing these kites with a CAD software and designing, implementing and testing a weather station which is able to measure the wind velocity (its magnitude and heading). Results will be used on the one hand to validate a Matlab simulator of the kites and on the other hand to make progress in the future flight test campaigns. ; Ingeniería Aeroespacial
Flight testing of power kites
2017-10-16
Theses
Electronic Resource
English
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690
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