more informations on kite control you can find in the following papers: Fechner, U., & Schmehl, R. (2012). Design of a Distributed Kite Power Control System. In Proceedings of the IEEE Multi - Conference on Systems and Control (p. 800-806). October 3-5, 2012. Dubrovnik, Croatia.
http://www.kitepower.eu/images/stories/publications/fechner12b.pdf U. Fechner and R. Schmehl, “Feed-Forward Control of Kite Power Systems,” Journal of Physics, 2014. http://iopscience.iop.org/1742-6596/524/1/012081 Uwe Fechner On Monday, September 15, 2014 3:44:21 PM UTC+2, Patrick O'Leary wrote: > > On Monday, September 15, 2014 3:25:07 AM UTC-5, Uwe Fechner wrote: >> >> With Python you can reach a jitter of less than 2 ms in the 20Hz control >> loop quite easily (on low-latency Linux). In my case this is sufficient for >> prototyping, >> but the real flight control system should run at a higher update >> frequency (perhaps 200 Hz). >> > > Semi-off-topic: 200 Hz seems really fast to me. What kind of > high-frequency dynamics do these things have? I'm not familiar with this > particular design space. Any good (open-access) papers? > > Patrick >