AWEC2021 Program

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Social Program - Wednesday, 22 June 2022

Welcome cocktail and visit to Politecnico di Milano Wind Tunnel facility

WhereBovisa Campus, Building B19
When
: 16.30-19.00

Technical Program - Thursday, 23 June 2022

WhereLeonardo Campus, Building 13 ("Trifoglio"), 2nd floor

8.40-9.00

Conference opening - Room Colombo (T.2.1)

Donatella Sciuto, Executive Vice Rector of Politecnico di Milano

Marcello Capra, Italian Ministry of the Ecological Transition (MITE)

9.00-9.40

Plenary Session I - Room Colombo (T.2.1)

9.00-9.20

Stephan Barth, International Energy Agency"s Wind Technology Collaboration Program (IEA Wind TCP)

9.20-9.40

Paula Nardone, International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)

9.45-11.00

Regular sessions

 

Modeling and Control I

Business Development

Resource, siting, acceptance

 

Room Vespucci (T.2.3)

Room Colombo (T.2.1)

Room Polo (T.2.2)

 

Chair: Ahmad Hably

Chair: Roland Schmehl

Chair: Michael McWilliam

9.45-10.00

Kernel-based Identification of Periodically Parameter-Varying Models of Power Kites

Mingzhou Yin, ETH Zurich

Airborne wind energy development database

Roland Schmehl, TU Delft

Comparison of Two Data-driven Airborne Wind Energy Oriented Long-term Weather Forecast Methods

Zhixin Feng, TU Delft

10.00-10.15

Safety-Critical Hybrid Control of Airborne Wind Energy Systems

Nikolaus Vertovec, University of Oxford

Rapidly Deployable Airborne Wind Energy Systems for Defense and Disaster Response

Eric J. Lang, University of Dayton Research Institute

The Airborne Wind Energy Resource Analysis Tool AWERA

Lavinia Thimm, University of Bonn

10.15-10.30

Estimation of Unknown Aerodynamic Forces of an AWE System

Ahmad Hably, Grenoble-INP

📹 Lessons Learned in Maturing Novel Renewables

Kester Gunn, RWE Renewables

📹 Towards flow-field characterization for AWES

Mark Kelly, DTU

 

10.30-10.45

Iterative Learning-Based Kite Path Optimization for Maximum Energy Harvesting

James Reed, North Carolina State University

Fostering International collaboration within IEA Wind TCP Task 48

Stefanie Thoms, Airborne Wind Europe

Practicalities of Site Selection for an Offshore AWE Demonstration: A Case Study for Ireland

Inés Coca-Tagarro, BlueWise Marine

10.45-11.00

Fault-tolerant Control of Airborne Wind Energy Systems with Quadrotor/Fixed-Wing UAV Configuration

Tareg Mohammed, Politecnico di Milano

True 3D high density webbing inflatable structures

Rudo Enserink, enserinkdesign.com

Social Acceptance of Airborne Wind Energy

Helena Schmidt, TU Delft

11.00-11.20

Coffee Break - main hall

 

Modeling and Control II

Company Developments

Aerodynamics and Structure I

 

Room Vespucci (T.2.3)

Room Colombo (T.2.1)

Room Polo (T.2.2)

 

Chair: Manfred Quack

Chair: Espen Oland

Chair: Mac Gaunaa

11.20-11.35

Kite Path-following with L0 and L1 Controllers Tested on a Small-scale Prototype

Sérgio Vinha, Universidade do Porto

First Airborne Wind Energy operation on a tropical island

Joep Breuer, Kitepower BV

Flying a rigid kite with a single tether attachment point

Tallak Tveide, KiteMill

11.35-11.50

 

Model Predictive Path-Following Control of Airborne Wind Energy Systems with Guaranteed Stability

Manuel C.R.M. Fernandes, Universidade do Porto

🚫 Polar Wind Highways

Ignacio Oficialdegui, Windsled

 

High fidelity Fluid-Structure Interaction Simulation of a Multi-megawatt Airborne Wind Energy Reference System

Niels Pynaert, Ghent University

11.50-12.05

 

🚫 Quantifying AWE Optimal Control Problem Tractability with Simple Vortex Models

Rachel Leuthold, University of Freiburg

Rotary Kite Turbine Development

Roderick Read, Windswept and Interesting Ltd

 

Improving Lifting-Line/Vortex-Step Methods for Kite Applications using 2D Unsteady Thin Airfoil Theory Results

Mac Gaunaa, DTU

12.05-12.20

 

ICM-autoKite Project: Control approaches for an automated kite propulsion

Franziska Hein, University of Stuttgart

Technical Development in Kitemill

Espen Oland, Kitemill AS

 

Combined Experimental and Numerical Aerodynamic Optimisation of High-Performance Rigid-Wing AWE Systems

Denes Fischer, Technical University Berlin

12.20-12.35

 

Automated Power Cycles in Daylong Operation at SkySails Test Site

Manfred Quack, SkySails Power GmbH

📹 Save Japan from a Future Social Crisis! "Mothership" Project Current Development Progress

Eiji Itakura, Toyota Motor Corporation

A Semi-Empirical Aerodynamic Model Based on Dynamic Stall for Rigid-Framed Delta Kites during Figure-of-Eight Maneuvers

Iván Castro-Fernández , Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

12.35-12.45

Conference group photograph - Outside Building 13

12.45-14.00

Lunch - Ground floor and outside

13.15-14.00

European Academy of Wind Energy Technical Committee meeting - Room T.0.3

13.15-14.00

Live video transmission - TU Delft student team: Kite Power on an Electric Pickup Truck,

Design/Synthesis Exercise Symposium - Room Colombo (T.2.1)

14.00-15.30

Plenary Session II - Room Colombo (T.2.1)

14.00-14.30

Stephan Wrage, Skysails Power GmbH

 

OEM presentations:

14.30-14.35

TwingTec's path to commercialization

 

Rolf Luchsinger, TwingTec AG

14.35-14.40

Kitekraft: Building Flying Wind Turbines

 

Florian Bauer, kiteKRAFT GmbH

14.40-15.15

Panel Discussion I moderated by Kristian Petrick, Airborne Wind Europe, with Alexander Bormann, Stephan Wrage, Rolf Luchsinger, Stephan Barth, Agustin Arjonilla, Florian Bauer and Rod Read

15.15-15.30

Poster Spotlights I

15.30-16.00

Coffee Break - main hall

15.40-16.40

Poster Session I and Coffee Break (main hall)

 

Magnus Effect Kites: Optimal Reel-Out Speeds for Cross-Wind Power Production and Early Simulation & Test Results

Garrett Smith, Wind Fisher SAS

Modelling and Sizing of a Hybrid Power Plant using Airborne Wind Energy Systems

Sweder Reuchlin, TU Delft

AirWing, a self-regulating control system for kites

Ingo Mewes, Hochschule für Schauspielkunst "Ernst Busch" Berlin

 

Modeling and Control of Airborne Wind Energy Systems using Prandtl lifting line and actuator line/curve models

Jean-Baptiste Crismer, Université catholique de Louvain

Fatigue Life Optimized Electromechanical Tether Design for Multimegawatt AWE

Stefan Neuhold, swiss inventix GmbH

Economic Potential of applying Circular Economy to AWE

Franco Vernazza, Draco Energia

 

Using the Lidar-validated hindcast model NORA3 for resource estimates of airborne wind energy systems

Jan Markus Diezel, University of Bergen

An Efficient Optimal Control Method for Airborne Wind Energy Systems with a Large Number of Slowly Changing Subcycles

Jakob Harzer, University of Freiburg

Development of an Aeroelastic Simulation Framework for Leading Edge Inflatable Kites

John Watchorn, TU Delft

 

Modelling aeroelastic deformation of inflatable membrane kites

Jelle Poland, TU Delft

Production Cycle Optimization for Pumping Airborne Wind Energy

Rodolfo Mathis, Politecnico di Milano

 

Low and High Fidelity Aerodynamic Simulations for Airborne Wind Energy Box Wings

Gabriel Buendia, TU Delft

Multi element airfoil design for an AWE rigid kite

Agustí Porta Ko, Kitemill and TU Delft

16.45-18.00

Regular sessions

 

Performance and optimization

Techno-economic studies

Prototyping and operation

 

Room Vespucci (T.2.3)

Room Colombo (T.2.1)

Room Polo (T.2.2)

 

Chair: Lorenzo Fagiano

Chair: Jochem Weber

Chair: Corey Houle

16.45-17.00

 

Power Smoothing in Utility-Scale Airborne Wind Energy Trajectory Optimization

Jochem De Schutter, University of Freiburg

 

NREL Airborne Wind Energy Workshop and Technical Report 2021

Jochem Weber, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

 

Status of UC3M Testbed for the Aerodynamic Characterization of Kites Applied to AWES

Francisco De Los Ríos-Navarrete, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

17.00-17.15

 

Power Losses Analysis of AWESs via a Novel Quasi-Analytical Dynamic Model

Gregorio Pasquinelli, Politecnico di Milano

Airborne Wind Energy for Sea Water Desalination: A Techno-Economic Study

Mahdi E. Salari, University College Cork

Maximizing visibility of AWE systems for airspace users

Corey Houle, TwingTec AG

17.15-17.30

 

Multidisciplinary design and optimization of fixed-wing AWESs

Filippo Trevisi, Politecnico di Milano

Life-Cycle Analysis of an Airborne Wind Energy System

Kristian Petrick, Airborne Wind Europe

🚫 Rotational Launch and Landing: Flight tests at EnerKite

Christian Gebhardt, Enerkite GmbH

17.30-17.45

 

Circular AWE Parks with High Ground Area Power Density

Moritz Diehl, University of Freiburg

A reference economic model for airborne wind energy systems

Rishikesh Joshi, TU Delft

SkyPower100 - Realization of a fully automatic AWES (100 kW)

Patrick Junge, Skysails Power GmbH

17.45-18.00

 

 

 

Optimal reeling control for pumping airborne wind energy systems without wind speed feedback

Lorenzo Fagiano, Politecnico di Milano

Energy Mix and Security Benefits of Airborne Wind Energy for Net Zero

Will Kennedy Scott, Swift Airgen Ltd.

Concepts for Obstruction Marking and Demand-Oriented Obstruction Avoidance to Ensure a Safe Operation of AWE Systems

Nicole Allgaier, Enerkite GmbH

 

Social Program - Thursday, 23 June 2022

Conference banquet

Where: Osteria del Treno, Via S. Gregorio, 46, 20124 Milano MI

When: 19.00-22.00

 

 

Technical Program - Friday, 24 June 2022

WhereLeonardo Campus, Building 13 ("Trifoglio"), 2nd floor

8.35-9.40

Plenary Session III - Room Colombo (T.2.1)

8.35-8.50

Kristian Petrick, Airborne Wind Europe, and Mike Blanch, BVG Associates

8.55-9.40

Philip Bechtle, University of Bonn

9.45-11.15

Regular sessions

 

Modeling and Control III

System Design

Aerodynamics and Structure II

 

Room Vespucci (T.2.3)

Room Colombo (T.2.1)

Room Polo (T.2.2)

 

Chair: Florian Bauer

Chair: Oliver Tulloch

Chair: Michael McWilliam

9.45-10.00

 

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

Zakeye Azaki, Grenoble-INP

Rotation compensator based cyclic pitch control for Rotary Airborne Wind Energy Systems

Christof Beaupoil, someAWE Labs S.L.

High-fidelity Tether Models for Airborne Wind Energy

Michael McWilliam, DTU

10.00-10.15

 

📹 Trajectory Tracking Controller Design and Simulation of a Tethered Aircraft

Anıl Sami Önen, Middle East Technical University

Design Analysis of a Rotary Airborne Wind Energy System

Oliver Tulloch, University of Strathclyde

 

Analytical wake models for crosswind kites

Mojtaba Kheiri, Concordia University

 

10.15-10.30

 

C++ Based Systems Engineering Framework as a Key Approach Towards Efficient, Reliable, and Autonomous Flying Wind Turbine Products

Florian Bauer, kiteKRAFT GmbH

Non-intrusive modeling of an AWE generator's bidirectional DC/DC converter

Joey Naranjo, Kitenergy Srl

An Entrainment-Based Model for Annular Wakes, with Applications to Airborne Wind Energy

Sam Kaufman-Martin, University of California, Santa Barbara

10.30-10.45

 

Julia Kite Power Tools

Uwe Fechner, Aenarete - Smart Wind

Drivetrain concepts for pumping airborne wind energy systems

Rishikesh Joshi, TU Delft

Aero-structural design tailoring of composite AWE wings

Ashwin Candade, Enerkite GmbH

10.45-11.00

 

Some modelling and control aspects of rotational starting and landing

Maximilian Ranneberg, Enerkite GmbH

 

The ICM-autoKite Project: Developing an automated kite propulsion system for the KITE GAS/FUEL SHIP and economic green hydrogen production

Klaus Heudorfer, University of Stuttgart

The Daedalus project: AWE tether engineering method substantiated

Rigo Bosman, RIGO Ropes

11.00-11.15

 

Optimal flight path for Fly-Gen Airborne Wind Energy Systems

Filippo Trevisi, Politecnico di Milano

The Pyramid, a TRPT rethink

Roderick Read, Windswept and Interesting Ltd

Performance Investigation of Utility-Scale Airborne Wind Energy Farms using Large-Eddy Simulations

Thomas Haas, KU Leuven

11.15-11.40

Coffee Break - main hall

11.40-12.40

Plenary Session IV - Room Colombo (T.2.1)

11.40-12.25

Chris Vermillion, North Carolina State University

12.25-12.40

Poster Spotlights II

12.40-14.00

Lunch - Ground floor and outside

13.30-14.00

Airborne Wind Europe members' meeting - Room T.0.3

14.00-15.15

Poster Session II and Coffee Break (main hall)

 

On control of phase transitions in Airborne Wind Energy Systems

Nicolas Kessler, Politecnico di Milano

 

KGM1 - A different approach to the Airborne Wind Energy technology

Marco Ghivarello, GHIVA Prog. CAD

Dynamics of tethered airborne wind energy systems

Amar Fayyad K. Akberali, Concordia University

 

Predictive Control of a Morphing Airborne Wind Energy System

Jacob B. Fine, North Carolina State University

 

Ground Station Control of an Airborne Wind Energy System in a Complete Operational Cycle

Ali Arshad Uppal, Universidade do Porto

Open-source parametric FE meshing tool for fixed-wing AWE kites

Dylan Eijkelhof, TU Delft

 

Airborne Wind Energy Farm Layout and Optimization

Luís A.C. Roque, Universidade do Porto

Swinging Motion of a Flexible Membrane Kite with Suspended Control Unit During Turning Maneuvers

Mark Schelbergen, TU Delft

Achieving ultralight, rigid, durable, low-cost composite AWE kites with efficient design and manufacturing

Florian Breipohl, Enerkite GmbH

 

 

Annual Wind Resource Assessment for an Airborne Wind Energy System

Anıl Edgar Uriel Solís-Magallanes, Metropolitan Polytechnic University of Hidalgo

Design of an Airborne Wind Energy System for Mars Habitats

Mario Rodriguez, TU Delft and DTU

Fast Aeroelastic Model of a Leading-Edge Inflatable Kite

Uri Cayon, TU Delft and DTU

15.15-16.00

Plenary Session V - Room Colombo (T.2.1)

 

OEM presentations:

15.15-15.20

Kitepower's journey to the Islands and beyond

 

Johannes Peschel, Kitepower BV

15.20-15.25

Kitemill - commercial development

 

Asgeir Løno (for Thomas Hårklau), Kitemill AS

15.25-15.30

A Multidimensional Trade-off

 

Gian Mauro Maneia, Kitenergy Srl

15.30-16.00

Panel Discussion II moderated by Kristian Petrick, Airborne Wind Europe, with Mike Blanch, Jochem Weber, Gian Mauro Maneia, Johannes Peschel, Asgeir Løno

16.00-16.15

Farewell

Registration package: A welcome desk to collect the registration package will be available in the following times:

15.30-18.00 on 22 June 2022 close to the Wind Tunnel Facility, Bovisa Campus, Building B19

8.30-16.00 on 23 June 2022 in the main hall, Leonardo Campus, Building 13 ("Trifoglio"), 2nd floor

8.30-14.00 on 24 June 2022 in the main hall, Leonardo Campus, Building 13 ("Trifoglio"), 2nd floor