Tony A. Wood

Electricity in the air: Insights from two decades of advanced control research and experimental flight testing of airborne wind energy systems

C Vermillion, M Cobb, L Fagiano, R Leuthold, M Diehl, RS Smith, TA Wood, S Rapp, R Schmehl, D Olinger, M Demetriou

Journal article  |  2021  |  Annual Reviews in Control

Airborne wind energy systems convert wind energy into electricity using tethered flying devices, typically flexible kites or aircr..

Optimisation with Zeroth-Order Oracles in Formation

E Michael, D Zelazo, TA Wood, C Manzie, I Shames

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

In this paper, we consider the optimisation of time varying functions by a network of agents with no gradient information. We prop..

Collision Avoidance Based on Robust Lexicographic Task Assignment

Tony A Wood, Mitchell Khoo, Elad Michael, Chris Manzie, Iman Shames

Journal article  |  2020  |  IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Traditional task assignment approaches for multi-agent motion control do not take the possibility of collisions into account. This..

Global Sensitivity Analysis for the Linear Assignment Problem

E Michael, TA Wood, C Manzie, I Shames

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  Proceedings of the American Control Conference

In this paper, the following question is addressed: given a linear assignment problem, how much can the all of the individual assi..

Distributed Algorithm for Solving the Bottleneck Assignment Problem

M Khoo, TA Wood, C Manzie, I Shames

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE 58th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)

Assignment problems are found in multiagent systems, where there is a need to allocate multiple tasks to agents. The bottleneck as..

Exploiting Structure in the Bottleneck Assignment Problem

Mitchell Khoo, Tony A Wood, Chris Manzie, Iman Shames

Journal article  |  2020  |  IFAC PAPERSONLINE

An assignment problem arises when there exists a set of tasks that must be allocated to a set of agents. The bottleneck assignment..

Exploiting structure of chance constrained programs via submodularity

Damian Frick, Pier Giuseppe Sessa, Tony A Wood, Maryam Kamgarpour

Journal article  |  2019  |  Automatica

We introduce a novel approach to reduce the computational effort of solving convex chance constrained programs through the scenari..

Uncertainty intervals for robust bottleneck assignment

E Michael, TA Wood, C Manzie, I Shames

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  2019 18th European Control Conference (ECC)

We examine the robustness of bottleneck assignment problems to perturbations in the assignment weights. We derive two algorithms t..

Stability Verification for Periodic Trajectories of Autonomous Kite Power Systems

Eva Ahbe, Tony A Wood, Roy S Smith

Conference Proceedings  |  2018  |  2018 EUROPEAN CONTROL CONFERENCE (ECC)

State-feedback controllers are frequently employed in Airborne Wind Energy systems to follow reference flight paths. In this paper..

Pumping cycle kite power with twings

R Luchsinger, D Aregger, F Bezard, D Costa, C Galliot, F Gohl, J Heilmann, H Hesse, C Houle, TA Wood, RS Smith

Book Chapter  |  2018  |  Green Energy and Technology

Pumping cycle kite power has attracted considerable interest over the last years with several start-ups and research teams investi..