The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $448,149 Project Grant to Regents Of The University Of Michigan on September 1, 2023. The grant will fund research to enable renewable energy generation systems, such as wind turbines and kites, to operate optimally over a wide range of environmental conditions. This will promote the progress of science and advance national prosperity by developing a framework for real-time co-design and control of reconfigurable energy-harvesting systems that can adapt to environmental variability. The project aims to address critical knowledge gaps by fusing notions from nested co-design and multi-rate hierarchical model predictive control. The research will be evaluated through simulation and scaled experimental validation on an energy-harvesting underwater kite with real-time morphing capability.
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