LAgrangian Kite SimulAtors (LAKSA)

This software has been registered at Registro Territorial de la Propiedad Intelectual de la Comunidad de Madrid (M-007673/2017) Copyright (c) 2017 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

Description

MALTAB source code.

Authors

• Gonzalo Sánchez-Arriaga gonsanch@ing.uc3m.es
• Alejandro Pastor-Rodríguez a.pastor.rguez@gmail.com

Acknowledgment

This work was initially supported by Fundación BBVA (Grant No. IN[15]_TIC_ING_0313) and then continued thanks to the funding of the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness (Project number ENE2015-69937-R, MINECO/FEDER, UE). Gonzalo Sánchez-Arriaga was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness (Grant No RYC-2014-15357)

Relevant papers

LAKSA modules have been presented in the following papers

• KiteAcrobat: G. Sánchez-Arriaga, M. García-Villalba, R. Schmehl, Modeling and dynamics of a two-line kite, Applied Mathematical Modelling, 47, 473-486, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apm.2017.03.030
• KiteFlex: G. Sánchez-Arriaga, A. Pastor-Rodríguez, M. Sanjurjo-Rivo, R. Schmehl, A lagrangian flight simulator for airborne wind energy systems, Applied Mathematical Modelling, 69, 665-684, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apm.2018.12.016 and A. Pastor-Rodríguez, G. Sánchez-Arriaga, and M. Sanjurjo-Rivo, Modeling and Stability Analysis of Tethered Kites at High Altitudes, J. of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, 40 (8), 2017, https://doi.org/10.2514/1.G002550.
• KiteSurf: G. Sánchez-Arriaga, A. Pastor-Rodríguez, R. Borobia-Moreno, R. Schmehl, A constraint-free flight simulator package for airborne wind energy systems, IOP Conf. Series: Journal of Physics: Conf. Series 1037 (2018) 062018 doi:10.1088/1742-6596/1037/6/062018.
• KiteTrain and KiteElastic: G. Sánchez-Arriaga, J. A. Serrano-Iglesias, R. Leuthold, M. Diehl, Modeling and normal mode analysis of tethered multi-aircraft systems, submitted.

Authors using LAKSA are invited to cite these papers in their scientific publications.