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
MATLAB source code.
- Gonzalo Sánchez-Arriaga gonsanch@ing.uc3m.es
- Alejandro Pastor-Rodríguez alejandro.pastor@alumnos.uc3m.es
- Francisco DeLosRíos-Navarrete francisco.los@alumnos.uc3m.es
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 State Research Agency (MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033) under the projects GreenKite (ENE2015-69937-R, MINECO/FEDER, UE), GreenKite2 ((PID2019-110146RB-I00) and Kite2Grid (PID2022-141520OB-I00). Gonzalo Sánchez-Arriaga was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness (Grant No RYC-2014-15357)
LAKSA modules have been presented in the following papers and PhD theses
- 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 Natural Mode Analysis of Tethered Multi-Aircraft Systems, Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 44(6), (2021), https://doi.org/10.2514/1.G005075.
- RAWE: G. Sánchez-Arriaga, A. Cerrillo-Vacas, D. Unterweger, and C. Beaupoil, Dynamic analysis of the tensegrity structure of a rotary airborne wind energy machine, Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 1273–1287, 2024, https://wes.copernicus.org/articles/9/1273/2024/
- KiteElastic3: F. DeLosRíos-Navarrete, Ground-Actuated Airborne Wind Energy Demonstrator, PhD thesis, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 2025.
Authors using LAKSA are invited to cite these papers in their scientific publications.