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FOWT Motion Reduction – Results from the Eurostars CROWN project

This summary presents the project Motion Reduction of a Concrete Reduced-draft spar for the Offshore floating Wind iNdustry (CROWN) of the partners Seaplace, USTUTT and

Floating wind research

Floating wind research is one of the key fields at Stuttgart Wind Energy (SWE). Frank Lemmer, the head of Floating Wind at sowento, was part of

The history of lidar-assisted control

Research and testing of lidar-assisted control started at University of Stuttgart in 2008 and since then experience on advanced control technologies involving processed lidar measurements has been

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