Who are some leading researchers, consultants, engineers,
designers, product developers,
inventors, and organizations? (not yet comprehensive)
Dr. Zhang Jianjun ...advanced kite energy from
California and has founded kite research and development in China.
See
M977Guangdong
High-Altitude Wind Power Technology Ltd
Request more information.
John Prewer
John R. Prewer
:
GB20070011535 20070615
Document 39 page PDF
Power generator using oscillations of a kite Two distinct
patent apps. See KiteTech
And Bill
Hampton.
David Inisrael
2009 new name for a creative inventor who is contributing to AWECS
Ivan Argatov, and Risto Silvennoinen
Dec. 7, 2009, symposium at TU Delft, Netherlands
13:30 Welcome Address
Prof. Dr. Wubbo Ockels
13:45 ASSET Kite Power R&D Agenda Dr.-Ing.
Roland Schmehl
14:15 Flight Dynamics of the Kiteplane
Edwin Terink, BSc
14:45 Dynamic Modeling of an Arc-Shaped Surfkite
Stefan De Groot, BSc
15:15 break
15:30 Multibody Kite Dynamic Model Jeroen
Breukels, MSc
16:00 Aerodynamic Analysis of a Ram-Air Wing
Aart de Wachter, MSc
16:30 Measuring Kite Dynamics Barend
Lubbers, MSc
Conference: High Altitude Wind Power (HAWP)
Anticipated attendees, so far, at a coming November 5 and 6, 2009,
in Chico and Oroville California conference first annual High Altitude Wind
Power Conference: The HAWP attendees will be invited to hear
presentations and take part in discussions; the activity will be in two venues,
first as part of the This Way to
Sustainability V Conference November 5-8, 2009; after HAWP presentations
on November 5th from 10:00 AM-12:00 noon, attendees will move to an event
Center in Oroville, to be declared soon on a website where registration may
occur online. [ED: It is not clear to me
about whether or not the registration for the main university conference
suffices or not for the HAWP
situation; explore details to confirm for yourself what the deal is; we will
publish details as they arrive.]]
PJ Shepard, Technical Marketing Engineer, Sky WindPower, Oroville CA
Joseph A. DiPalo
Consultant for EnergyKiteSystems.net
Lloyd I. Biscomb US Pat. 4309006
- Filed Jun 4, 1979 Approved on Jan. 5, 1982. "Tethered
airfoil wind energy conversion system" TAWECS
William J. Mouton, Jr. US Patent 4166596
Airship Power Turbine
David F. Thompson
Filed Apr. 28, 1978 Issued Sep. 4, 1979
[Exquadrum, Inc.
Report on September 30, 2009: not currently pursuing airborne
approach. However, their ground-based OTT is interesting and may provide
some ideas for airborne researchers: See
OTT
orbital track turbine ]
Doug Selsam. SkySerpent
SkySerpant SuperTurbine See vids and
NOTICE. Torsion using set of bladed turbines driving
ground generator; AWE system lifter by balloons and parachute; same could be
lifted by kite or kytoon or combinations of lifters.
Trevor Clark Jonny Hayworth Charles Clear Chris Gentile Samantha Brovko
Google.org invested $15 million to support R&D on high-altitude wind energy extraction technologies aimed at producing utility-scale power cheaper than coal.
== Dr.
Eric
Schmidt, Chairman and CEO of Google Inc. Smart grid needed now. And
energy efficiency as resource now. Performance-based standards for energy
efficiency. Plug-in hybrids. Smart meters for homes. Open systems. Open
standards. Fund university R& D. Patent reform. Energy...need to get it
right. Engagement. Encourage debate. Embrace all. Use the crowds.
Vid1 Vid2(48 MIN)
JoeBen Bevirt Joby Energy in Santa Cruz ArchanPadmanabhan Ref1
Scheduled to speak at HAWP 2009 for Joby Energy.
Gal Pri-Paz, Netanya, Israel Uzi Ezra Havosha, Tel Aviv, Israel
Structural optimization of the pumping
kite wind generator by Ivan Argatov. Abstract
Bryan Roberts .Bryan William Roberts. Australia. FEGs FEG Flying electric generator, Gyromill 2001 ...since 1979 University of Western Sydney See also Sky WindPower or SkyWindPower.
Mark LandryCMNA Power Craig Varrichio, Mark Landry, Anthony Varrichio, Chad Harper
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Dr. Jitendra Goela (several kite research papers)
David Hammond ShepardHigh Altitude Wind Power. Mission: "To convert the power in high altitude winds into clean energy for a better world.TM " "Sky WindPower" "Sky WindPower Corporation" A continuation of Bryan Roberts' concepts on flying wind generator using lofted generators producing electricity from rotary-wing kites is a focus of Sky Windpower.
Miles L. Loyd --- Crosswind Kite Power by Miles L. Loyd Crosswind kite power (for large-scale wind power production) LOYD, M.L., California, Univ., Livermore Journal of Energy 1980 0146-0412 vol.4 no.3 (106-111)
Optimal Control of Towing Kites
Houska, B.; Diehl, M. Decision and Control, 2006 45th IEEE Conference on Volume , Issue , 13-15 Dec. 2006 Page(s):2693 - 2697 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/CDC.2006.377210 Summary: In this paper we present a challenging application of periodic optimal control. A kite that is towing a ship into a given target direction should fly optimal loops. We show how to find the maximum average tractive force by controlling the roll angle of the towing kite taking into account that the wind is increasing with the altitude over the sea. The optimal control problem for this highly nonlinear and unstable system has periodicity constraints, free initial values, and a free cycle duration. For its solution, we use MUSCOD-II, an optimal control package based on the direct multiple shooting method. Finally, we discuss the influence of an important design parameter, the effective glide ratio of the kite. »View citation and abstract
Kite Wind Power Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Article1Article2
$2250 Kite Wind Power Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania This grant funds research of kite power generation in a project to develop a tethered kite model that will extract energy from the wind. Kites will be designed, built, and tested at a high altitude where the wind blows continually and reliably. In addition, grantees will sponsor a kite design competition during Temple University’s Engineers Week (February 19-23, 2008) for high school and college participants. Reference
Dave CulpKiteShip (tm). Kite master. Inventor. Surface of Mars. Articles Kite leader. Kite Ship corporation. Advisor: EnergyKiteSystems.net Speedsailing. Former contract with Makani Power, Inc.. KiteLift (tm) consultant. Dean Jordan
Saul GriffithArticle1 "The 33-year-old learned he'd won a 2007 MacArthur Fellowship, the no-strings-attached "genius grants" of $500,000 over five years." Co-founder of Makani Power, Inc.President and Chief Scientist at Makani Power, Inc. See: "Wind team" at Makani Power, Inc. [a major player in the commercial kite power field]. Kite surfing innovator.
Don Montague Co-founder of Makani Power, Inc.
Corwin Hardham
Scheduled to speak at HAWP 2009 for Makani Power.
Geoffrey Dolan
Andrew Forrest
Andrew Laska
Pete Lynn, Jr.
Sebastian Marino
Decimo "Dudu" Mazzocato
James McBride
Ryan McKinley
Rob Nelson
Mose O'Griffin
Jonathan Pompa
Zach Radding
Abe Schneider
Jamie Schulte
Andrea Dunlap
Sig Hafstrom
Jamie Ross
Shakira Al-Musawwir
Dante Siracusa
Zola Volsan
John Borsheim American Test Engineering Corporation (ATEC) in Austin, Texas.
KiteGenerator development.. Gearless AWE.
M231
Mathematical Modeling of the Pumping Kite Wind Generator:
Optimization of the Power Output 17 pages, PDF.
By Team Leader: Joachim Krenciszek TU Kaiserslautern, Germany
Saheed Ojo Akindeinde TU Kaiserslautern, Germany
Hans Braun TU Kaiserslautern, Germany
Clement Marcel University of Joseph Fourier, France
Eric Okyere Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Instructor: Dr. Ivan Argatov Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Dave Santos (artistic aerospace robotics explorer with daring ecological-innovation habits.). KiteLab. FlipWing
Soft WingMill Soft Wing Mill
flipper-wings
TTKS Tripod Tethered Kite System
Todd Lind
[master mechanic from heavy machinery to bikes,
with experience in wildland firefighting that he is applying to kite
fire-fighting (& irrigation). He is daily advancing kite tech volunteering at
KiteLab, Ilwaco, Washington]
Gianni Vergnano USPTO Application #:
20080185480 Xerces Blue
“My calculations show that if we could just tap into 1 percent of the energy in high-altitude winds, it would be enough to power all civilization. The whole planet!”
Source for more.
Keri Schneirla, a Marketing Specialist at Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory arranged for an interview with Dr. Ken Caldeira, a climate scientist
from the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology at Stanford
University after his presentation at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory on
March 17, 2009.
See interview
Roberts, B.W., S.H. Shepard, K. Caldeira, M.E. Cannon, D.G. Eccles, A.J.
Grenier and J.F. Freidlin,
High Altitude Wind Power.IEEE
Transactions on Energy Conversion (in press).
Magenn Power, Inc. Magenn Power's MARS Site. Fred Ferguson is CTO. Magenn Power's MARS is a Wind Power Anywhere™ offering to energy kite systems using rotating lighter-than-air kytoon lifters and in-kytoon generators with electricity sent down a conductor.
Frederick D. Ferguson. USPat 7335000
Mac Brown (COO), Matthew Wilkins, Jeffrey Ferguson, Dale George, Thomas
Wolstenholme,
Tony Asterita, Axel Doerwald, Uncle `Buck` Ross, Fred Ferguson (CTO), Donald
Charpentier,
Pierre Rivard (CEO), Bruno Doerwald, Chris Dawes (UK), Barry Monette, Mike
Brown,
Anthony Pizarro, Angela Faulkner, and Jason Hatcher
Taras Kiceniuk, Jr. D0576541 Regenerative soaring.
Taras Kiceniuk (Senior) Patent number: 3118639 Filing date: Dec 5, 1961 Issue date: Jan 1964 [ED: morph foils of kites and paravanes via his methods ...in order to achieve motion and forces for generating electricity.]
SEA GLIDER HAVING A HYDRO-TURBINE TO HARNESS THE KINETIC ENERGY OF MOTION THROUGH THE WATER International Patents applied for by Robert D. Hunt
Brooks Coleman advancing on some generators for kite systems
and testing systems.
Gary Dean Ragner
Patent number: 6523781 Filed date: Aug 29, 2001 Issued: Feb 25, 2003 Application number: 9/941,337Axial-mode linear wind-turbine. A wind harnessing system using a
plurality of self supporting airfoil kites 50 for production of useful power.
Gaylord G. Olson
Howard G. Carpenter 593141655336946254034 "Kite Electricity Development Company" Participated 8/28/01 in a California workshop on energy.
Bill Bigge CCNR Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
Allister Furey of the University of Sussex. Home web A. D. J. Furey
Kite energy researcher.
Robotics.
Computer control.
Papers:
Furey, A.D.J. and Harvey, I. (2008). Adaptive Behavioural Modulation and Hysteresis in an Analogue of a Kite Control Task. In proc of Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour (in print)pre-print PDF
Furey, A.D.J. and Harvey, I. (2008).'Robust Adaptive Control for Kite Wind Energy Using Evolutionary Robotics'. Biological Approaches to Engineering, pages 117-120. Southampton, UK.PDF
Furey, A.D.J. and Harvey, I. (2007). Evolution of Neural Networks for Active Control of Tethered Airfoils. In Almeida e Costa, F., Rocha, L.M., Costa, E., Harvey, I. and Coutinho, A., editors, Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Artificial Life, pages 746-756. Springer. PDF.
Past, Present, and Future of Kites and Energy GenerationAbstract: Kites have been known to man for thousands of years. Their invention is somewhat of a mystery in itself. Kites have played major roles in art, religion and science. But even after thousands of years, the kite as a flying object has seen a relatively small amount of scientific research. Compared with another popular flying object, the airplane, it seems to have seriously lagged behind in the last 100 years. Using kites for energy generation would seem like a viable way to tap into the energy contained within the winds at high altitude. The Laddermill is a project at the Delft University of Technology, which envisions this very thing. But in the design of the Laddermill, it becomes more and more apparent that the scientific research of kites has lagged behind. This paper will go into the reasons for this, and will attempt to lay down a path through which kites can mature and become a serious player in the energy generation sector.
Ilario Gerlero, MSc thesis:
Control of powerkites for wind energy generation
(on request).
Talk, Prof. M. Diehl (The Leuven-Heidelberg Kite Project, download, Video) Homepage. Leader of Leuven Kite Power Group
Moritz Diehl from the Catholic University (K.U.) of Leuven, Belgium
Talk, Boris Houska ( Robust and Open-Loop Stable Kite Trajectories, Abstract, download)
Talk, Andreas Ilzhoefer (NMPC and MHE on Power Generating Kites, Abstract, download)
Talk, Karin Lindholm (The Leuven-Heidelberg Kite Model from a System Perspective, Abstract, download)
Stanford University (Where Francis M. Rogallo receive his aeronautical engineering degreed) is involved in kite power. "Ken Caldeira, a climate scientist at Stanford University's Carnegie Institution, has estimated that the total energy contained in wind is 100 times the amount needed by everyone on the planet. But most of this energy is at high altitude." Clip from here.
North Star Kite & Sail"Simon Jakeman is a Parachute Technician registered with the FAA.
With his background in parachute rigging, ram air kites present no problem."
Philippe Vauthier is founder: UEK Underwater Electric Kite ®
http://www.claverton-energy.com/energy-experts-wiki/Main_Page By January 17, 2009, it is noteworthy that this site's many files has not "kite" or "kites" mentioned even once. KiteLab now as of Jan. 17, 2009, forms a page in that Claverton Energy Experts wiki tool.
http://www.cwet.tn.nic.in/Default.htm Centre for Wind Energy Technology Velachery - Tambaram Main Road, Pallikaranai Chennai - 600 100, Tamil Nadu, INDIA
Project by Claire Kennedy, Courtney Devoid, Joanie Stultz, and Raivynn Smith, assisted by Prof. T. Tailer
Peter Lynn [ED: Instead of using fuel, give transport of vehicles via the energy of a kite system.] Distinguish Sr. from Jr. ...both active in energy kite systems.
Grant Calverley [ED: VirtualWiki of EnergyKiteSystems.net has been started ...via the synergy of Grant Calverley. ] http://www.sanjuantimberframes.com/ Exploring laddermill method. Active on the kite field. .
Gian Mauro Maneia He
graduated in Aerospace Engineering at Politecnico di Torino (Italy)
presenting a master thesis about the Kite Gen™ wind energy generator.
The large future kytoon systems harvesting energy from the wind will employ the services of engineers from very many disciplines. We invite departments from universities to consider having a representative receiving notices once a month from EnergyKiteSystems. Subscribe@EnergyKiteSystems.net
"Apparatus and method to make a sail and relative sail made", EP1802523, Inventors: Fiorenzi A., Maneia G.M.
"Methods to design and produce sails", WO2007054562, Inventors: Fiorenzi A., Maneia G.M.
Paul Williams Associated with the Leuven Kite Power Group which is a subgroup of Optimization in Engineering Center (OPTEC) "The Optimization in Engineering Center (OPTEC) was created in 2005 as one of the twelve Centers of Excellence at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. OPTEC is a center of interdisciplinary research on engineering applications of mathematical optimization, emerging from four different engineering fields: computer science, as well as chemical, mechanical and electrical engineering."
Dries Visser from Design of Aircraft and Rotorcraft Chair
David H. Shepard David Hammond Shepard Obit. wikiPatent 4659940 "The dream was that enough electricity could be generated from high-flying windmills to more than meet the world’s present needs without carbon emissions."
Bryan Roberts
Manfred Morari "head of the Automatic Control
Laboratory at ETH Zurich in Switzerland."
Bernhard Hoffschmidt of the Solar-Institute Jülich at Aachen
University in Germany
Ken Caldeira, a climate scientist with the Department of Global Energy of the Carnegie Institution of Washington
Mathematical Modeling of the Pumping Kite Wind Generator: Optimization of the Power Output Oct. 31, 2008 Joachim Krenciszek ____ Team Leader. TU Kaiserslautern, Germany Saheed Ojo Akindeinde ____ TU Kaiserslautern, Germany Hans Braun ____ TU Kaiserslautern, Germany Clement Marcel ____ University of Joseph Fourier, France Eric Okyere ____ Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Dr. Ivan Argatov ____ Instructor. Tampere University of Technology, Finland
