KITESIM

This is a real time dynamic model of a tethered kite which can be useful for visualisation, parameter estimation, flight controller development and so forth for airborne wind turbines. Live demo!

installing

1. install nodejs (choose most recent LTS)
2. clone from github
3. npm install in the root folder
4. It's recommended to use Visual Studio Code for editing/ "wathcing" and building.

Viewing in a browser

2. npm run web. Opens a terminal process that watches for file changes and rebuilds the bundle.js
3. open dist/index.html in browser. On mac you can type open dist/index.html from another terminal.

Running Headless

2. npm run build
3. npm run log or npm run multi

You can have Visual studio code watch your tsc - tscondig_headless.json to automatically rebuild on file changes. Configure under terminal menu.

Folders

Dist

This is the output used for the website.

contains bundle.js and index.html is used for the main simulation script. A secondary website playground.html with acombiening playground.js can be used to test parts of the simulator.

logger

Transpiled code output folder for headless mode

models

Load models from pure .json files

src

Source files. Configuration, simulation code and the programs

tests

Unit tests for the fundemental aerodynamics ect.

node_modules

installed packages for instance webpack and threeJS. Don't touch

#Physics We have writen the physics ourselvs. see tether.ts, aero-plane.ts, ...