TY - JOUR
T1 - Wireless Charging Techniques for UAVs
T2 - A Review, Reconceptualization, and Extension
AU - Lu, Maxim
AU - Bagheri, Mehdi
AU - James, Alex P.
AU - Phung, Toan
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Program-Targeted Funding of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan through the Innovative Materials and Systems for Energy Conversion and Storage for 2018–2020 under Grant BR05236524.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2013 IEEE.
Copyright:
Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2018/5/26
Y1 - 2018/5/26
N2 - An important application in the growing field of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is in monitoring and inspection of high voltage power lines and electrical networks. The UAV-based monitoring method will save energy, simplify access to impassable or remote areas, reduce inspection cost, and automate the inspection process. However, the battery capacity of a medium scale drone limits their travel distance and mission duration. It is crucial to improve the energy feeding system of drones and overcome the battery capacity problem to foster the use of drones for routine monitoring operations. In this study, we focus on presenting wireless techniques available for drone mission duration improvement as well as discuss and practically examine the most feasible and reliable technique to charge UAV using power lines.
AB - An important application in the growing field of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is in monitoring and inspection of high voltage power lines and electrical networks. The UAV-based monitoring method will save energy, simplify access to impassable or remote areas, reduce inspection cost, and automate the inspection process. However, the battery capacity of a medium scale drone limits their travel distance and mission duration. It is crucial to improve the energy feeding system of drones and overcome the battery capacity problem to foster the use of drones for routine monitoring operations. In this study, we focus on presenting wireless techniques available for drone mission duration improvement as well as discuss and practically examine the most feasible and reliable technique to charge UAV using power lines.
KW - inductive power transfer
KW - Unmanned aerial vehicles
KW - wireless charging
KW - wireless energy transfer
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U2 - 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2841376
DO - 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2841376
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85047616493
VL - 6
SP - 29865
EP - 29884
JO - IEEE Access
JF - IEEE Access
SN - 2169-3536
ER -