Presentations

	Monday, 15 June
Time	Aula congrescentrum
08:30 - 09:30	Registration & Coffee
	Auditorium	Lecture Room C
09:30 - 10:00	Session: Conference Opening - Welcome Notes Dr. Roland Schmehl, Associate Professor- Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, TU Delft Prof. Dr. Gerard van Bussel, Chairholder Wind Energy, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, TU Delft Prof. Dr. Hester Bijl, Dean, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, TU Delft

	Session: Industry Highlights Chair: Roland Schmehl
10:00 - 10:25	Damon Vander Lind, Makani Power Developing a 600 kW Airborne Wind Turbine
10:25 - 10:50	Michiel Kruijff, Ampyx Power Status and Development Plan of the PowerPlane of Ampyx Power
10:50 - 11:15	Alexander Bormann, EnerKíte Global Economy of Airborne Wind Energy and our Path Towards a Market-Ready Technology
11:15 - 11:35	Coffee
	Session: Regulation and Wind Environment Chair: Guido Lütsch	Session: Modelling, Simulation and Control (Rigid Wing) Chair: Roland Schmehl
11:35 - 11:55	Richard Ruiterkamp, Ampyx Power Update on Certification and Regulations of Airborne Wind Energy Systems- European Case of Rigid Wings	Alain de Solminihac, ENSTA Bretagne Kite as Beam - An Analytical 3D Kite Tether Model
11:55 - 12:15	Ben Glass, Altaeros Energies A Review of Wind Standards as they Apply to Airborne Wind Turbines	Damian Aregger, FHNW Hardware in the Loop Testing for Autonomous Airborne Wind Energy Systems
12:15 - 12:35	David Brandt, EWC Weather Consult GmbH Adapting Wind Resource Estimation for Airborne Wind Energy Converters	Henrik Hesse, ETH Zürich Autonomous Pumping Cycles for Tethered Wings
12:35 - 12:55	Ilona Bastigkeit, Fraunhofer IWES Study on Wind Resources at Mid-Altitude
12:55 - 13:50	Lunch
	Session: Implemented Concepts Chair: Rolf Luchsinger	Session: Control and Optimization Chair: Christoph Hackl
13:50 - 14:10	Thomas Hårklau, Kitemill Kitemill, a Driver of Second-Generation Wind Energy!	Curran Crawford, University of Victoria To Fly a Kite, Glider or Prop Wing?
14:10 - 14:30	Rolf Luchsinger, TwingTec AG Closing the Gap: Pumping Cycle Kite Power with Twings	Christoph Hackl, Technische Universität München DC-Link Control for Airborne Wind Energy Systems During Pumping Mode
14:30 - 14:50	Pedro Silva, Omnidea Analysis of Experimental Data of a Hybrid System Exploiting the Magnus Effect for Energy from High Altitude Wind	Sanket Sanjay Diwale, EPFL Predictive Control of an Airborne Wind Energy System using Gaussian Process Models
14:50 - 15:10	Bjarke Kronborg, eWind Solutions eWind Solutions Company Overview and Major Design Choices	Ramiro Saraiva, Federal University of Santa Catarina Online Parameter Estimation for Flight Control of Tethered Airfoils
15:10 - 15:30	Lukas Braun, Enevate Preparing the Road for 24 Hours Flight Operation of a Pumping Kite Power System	Marcelo De Lellis, Federal University of Santa Catarina On the Optimization of Pumping Kites for Wind Power
15:30 - 15:50	Coffee
	Session: Business Development Chair: Linda Kamp	Session: Modelling, Simulation and Control (Soft Wing) Chair: Roland Schmehl
15:50 - 16:15	Matthew Doe, TU Delft How to Introduce Kite-Based Airborne Wind Energy Systems - The Selection of Niche Strategies to Overcome Barriers to Adoption	Roland Schmehl, TU Delft Traction Power Generation with Tethered Wings - A Quasi-Steady Model for the Prediction of the Power Output
16:15 - 16:40	Wolbert Allaart, Ampyx Power Ampyx Power Market Development	M Prabu Sai Manoj, IIT Madras Quasi-Steady Fluid Structure Interaction Model of the Surf Kite
16:40 - 17:05	Gordon Planes, T’Sou-Ke First Nation Harvesting the Wind - A Canadian First Nations Perspective	Julius Berens, TU Delft Dynamic Nonlinear Aeroelastic Behaviour of Flexible Wings in an Airflow
17:05 - 17:30	Corey Houle, Twingtec AG Mobile Wind Farms Using Tethered Wings- Technical and Economic Considerations	Jelte Van Til, TU Delft Dynamic Model of a Bridled Kite Including Rotational Deformations
17:30 - 19:30	Free Time
19:30 - 23:00	Dinner at Artcentre Delft and screening of AWE documentary

	Tuesday, 16 June
Time	Auditorium	Lecture Room C
	Session: Finance and Networking Chair: Chris Vermillion
09:30 - 09:50	Bryan Roberts (via video link) Quad-Rotorcraft to Harness High Altitude Wind Energy
09:50 - 10:10	Guido Lütsch, HWN500 Network Airborne Wind Energy Network HWN500 - Shouldering R&D in Co-Operations
10:10 - 10:30	Roland Schmehl, TU Delft The AWESCO Initial Training Network - Addressing the Key Engineering Challenges of Airborne WInd Energy
10:30 - 10:50	Udo Zillmann, Daidalos Capital The Trillion Dollar Drone - A Change of Perspective
10:50 - 11:10	Chris Vermillion, UNC Charlotte Development of a Micro Scale Closed-Loop Testing Framework for Airborne Wind Energy Systems - A case Study in University/Industry Collaboration
11:10 - 11:30	Coffee
	Session: Materials and Implemented Concepts Chair: Alexander Bormann	Session: Modelling, Simulation and Control (Soft Wing) Chair: Michael Erhard
11:30 - 11:50	Emre Dikmen, Kontra Engineering Design Considerations and Control Implementation for a Two-Tethered Kite-Based Airborne Wind Energy System	Adrian Gambier, Fraunhofer IWES Recovery Phase Analysis of Pumping Kites Wind Generator
11:50 - 12:10	Alfred Van den Brink, E-Kite Design of the e-50 Ground Station	Michael Erhard, SkySails Automatic Control of Optimal Pumping Cycles in Airborne Wind Energy
12:10 - 12:30	Tobias Schneiderheinze, TU Chemnitz High-Performance Ropes and Drums in Airborne Wind Energy Systems	Uwe Fechner, TU Delft Flight Path Planning in a Turbulent Wind Environment
12:30 - 12:50	Joep Breuer, Airborne Technology Centre Composites Manufacturing for Airborne Wind Energy	Reinhart Paelinck, FlySurfer Kiteboarding R&D High-Performance Soft Kite Technology State of the Art, Limits and Opportunities
12:50 - 13:10	Ingo Berbig, TU Chemnitz Development of Multi-Functional Narrow Fabric as Tension Member of Winch Operations	Stefan Wilhelm, Hamburg University of Technology Life Cycle Assessment of Electricity Production from an Airborne Wind Energy System
13:10 - 14:15	Lunch Poster Session (Foyer) Group Photo
	Session: Concepts and Designs Chair: Moritz Diehl	Session: Modelling, Simulation and Experiments Chair: Uwe Fechner
14:15 - 14:35	Florian Bauer, Technische Universität München On Multicopter-Based Launch and Retrieval Concepts for Lift Mode Operated Power Generating Kites	Ahmad Hably, Gipsa-Lab Éoliennes Volantes: Airborne Wind Energy Activities at the Gipsa-Lab
14:35 - 14:55	Stephan Schnez, ABB Switzerland Ltd The Take-Off of an Airborne Wind Energy System Based on Rigid Wings	Antonello Cherubini, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna Modelling and Design of Off-Shore Floating Platform for High Altitude Wind Energy Converters
14:55 - 15:15	Moritz Diehl, University of Freiburg Multiple Wing Systems - an Alternative to Upscaling?	Nedeleg Bigi, ENSTA Bretagne A Quasi-Analytical 3D Kite Tethered Model
15:15 - 15:35	Gabor Dobos, Chemotronik Kft. (via video link) Identified Flying Objects - IFO: An Un-Tethered Wind Energy System	Maximilian Ranneberg, EnerKíte Estimation, Optimisation and Validation of Power Curves for Airborne Wind Energy
15:35 - 15:55	Bjorn Renneisen & Jan Hummel, TU Berlin On Image Interpretation for Position Detection of Kites	Evangelos Ploumakis, TU Delft Enhanced Kinetic Energy Entrainment in Wind Farms Wakes - LES Study of a Wind Turbine Array with Tethered Kites
16:00 - 16:15	Closing Remarks