Announce release 0.5.3 #20
Description
ANN: New package WinchControllers
Recently, I registered the package WinchControllers, and the new release 0.5.3 is ready for practical use.
While it was developed for airborne wind energy systems, it should be useful everywhere where winches are needed, for example for
- elevators
- cranes
- launching sail planes
- deploying sub-sea cables
- teaching
Implemented features:
- lower force control (assure that there is always a minimal cable tension)
- upper force control (keep the maximal force limited)
- reel-out speed control proportional to the square root of the force (other relationships can easily be added)
- control of asynchronous motors/ generators
- speed control
- auto-tuning of the controller
Planned features
- support of torque controlled winches
- length control (position control)
- integration of a quasi-steady tether model
Installation is easy, some examples are provided, just follow the instructions in the README.md