16 Corey Houle FHNW Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz Institut für Aerosol- und Sensortechnik Klozergstrasse 2 5210 Windisch Switzerland corey.houle@fhnw.ch www.fhnw.ch/technik
SwissKitePower - A Collaborative R&D Project
Corey Houle, Jannis Heilmann, Dominik Sommer, Heinz Burtscher Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz
The SwissKitePower project started with the goal of devel-oping a vision of what a kite power plant would look like. Over the past three years re-searchers from FHNW, Empa, ETH-Zurich and Alstom Switzerland AG have worked togeth-er to achieve this goal. A working groundstation has been constructed at FHNW, which has been used as a test plat-form for the development of a novel kite concept Empa and
flight control algorithms from ETH. Under the guidance of Alstom, an economic analysis of kite power has been con-ducted which highlights the long term potential of the tech-nology. Going forwards, researchers from FHNW and ETH have teamed up with EPFL-Lausanne to conduct a nationally funded project on the topic of Autonomous Airborne Wind Energy.
