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Federal
Observation-Based Resource Assessment of Gulf Stream MHK
Department of Energy —
Multi-year measurements of current velocity, salinity, and temperature from fixed and vessel-mounted sensors quantify Gulf Stream (GS) MHK resource variability and... -
Federal
Control-based optimization for tethered tidal kite
Department of Energy —
This submission includes three peer-reviewed (under review) papers from the researchers at North Carolina State University presenting control-based techniques to... -
Federal
Spooling control design for flight optimization of tethered tidal kites
Department of Energy —
This submission includes three peer-reviewed (under review) papers from the researchers at North Carolina State University presenting different control-based... -
Federal
Lift Equivalence and Cancellation for Airfoil Surge-Pitch-Plunge Oscillations
Department of Energy —
A NACA 0018 airfoil in freestream velocity is oscillated in longitudinal, transverse, and angle-of-attack directions with respect to the freestream velocity, known as... -
Federal
Control of an AUV with deployable energy-harvesting kite
Department of Energy —
This paper examines the control of an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) with a deployable energy-harvesting kite for oceanographic observation and surveillance. The... -
Federal
Geometric, structural, and control co-design for undersea kites
Department of Energy —
Focusing on a marine hydrokinetic energy application, this paper presents a combined geometric, structural, and control co-design framework for optimizing the... -
Federal
Optimal kite control in spatiotemporally varying flow fields - ACC 2021
Department of Energy —
Two papers submitted (and accepted) to the 2021 American Control Conference (ACC), both focused on different attributes of kite control in variable flow environments.... -
Federal
Model and experimental validation of ocean kite dynamics and controls
Department of Energy —
This submission includes two peer-reviewed papers from researchers at North Carolina State University presenting the modeling and lab-scale experimentation of the...