Towards Solar-Powered Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Improved Flight Performance

Hamza, Aminu; Mohammed, Ameer; Isah, Abubakar

doi:10.1109/nigeriacomputconf45974.2019.8949672

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“…Traditional energy harvesting technologies were mostly concentrated on solar energy or wind energy. Examples of solar powered UAVs used for environmental monitoring in Thailand or sub-Saharan Africa were described in [ 16 , 17 ], respectively. In [ 18 ] a charging system consisting of a PV panel and a fuel cell was proposed.…”

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Selection of Solar Powered Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for a Long Range Data Acquisition Chain

Woźniak

Jessa

2021

Sensors

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The paper presents a long range data acquisition chain operating in areas without access to the electricity grid or communication infrastructure built with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). It is assumed that the length of the network chain significantly exceeds the flight range of a single drone. To build such a network three basic problems have to be solved. The first is energy harvesting for battery charging. The second concerns the choice of drone models that can cover a given distance in the shortest time. The third problem is the reduction of the flight range of drones as a function of payload mass. The evaluation of the proposed method is based on the results of simulations and cost analysis of 54 drones and 25 solar cells. The analysis ends with a proposition of seven steps that can help to choose the most suitable drone model for a given task.

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confidence: 99%