Flight-Path Reconstruction and Flight Test of Four-Line Power Kites

A flight-path reconstruction algorithm for tethered aircraft, which is based on an extended Kalman filter, is presented. The algorithm is fed by the measurements of a set of onboard and ground-base...

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