What?
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!
install & use
- install node js and npm from https://nodejs.org/en/
- run
clone git@github.com:kitextech/kitesim.git - run
cd kitesim - run
npm install - run
gulp - open
docs/index.html
livereload
To increase development speed gulp will be tracking any file changes and process/copy files when needed. If you have the livereload plugin for chrome (and the livereload setting: local files activated) then the browser will automatically reload the page on file changes.
DAT-GUI Instlation
Since the npm packages of dat.gui is very outdated, then the package is installed by downloading the https://github.com/dataarts/dat.gui/ library into the node_modules folder and and running npm install. Rename the folder from dat.gui to dat-gui. The latest version is needed to get browsify support. Renaming to dat-gui is in order to get the matching typescript. dataarts/dat.gui#137
editor
We recommend using Visual Studio Code which is typescript aware.