Aerial Surveillance with Low-Altitude Long-Endurance Tethered Multirotor UAVs Using Photovoltaic Power Management System
For a continuous surveillance mission using a swarm of multiple tethered low-altitude long-endurance (LALE) multirotor-type unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), we developed a 500 W class photovoltaic power management system (PPMS) which monitors voltage and current flows of photovoltaic (PV) panels, ba...
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| description | For a continuous surveillance mission using a swarm of multiple tethered low-altitude long-endurance (LALE) multirotor-type unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), we developed a 500 W class photovoltaic power management system (PPMS) which monitors voltage and current flows of photovoltaic (PV) panels, battery pack, and UAV and controls power flows to support UAV flight operation. In contract to a fixed-wing UAV, a tethered multirotor UAV can generate continuously varying closed-circuit television (CCTV) like ground map images by stitching incoming images though the operation range is limited. With an indoor flight experiment, we demonstrated the usefulness of the PPMS and proved operation integrity. According to the results, a total of six multirotor UAVs were required to continuously perform a surveillance mission for 5 h 46 min from 11:04 to 16:50. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-39669042e9fb41489ff411762ed0ccc52022-12-22T02:53:36ZengMDPI AGEnergies1996-10732019-04-01127132310.3390/en12071323en12071323Aerial Surveillance with Low-Altitude Long-Endurance Tethered Multirotor UAVs Using Photovoltaic Power Management SystemSunghun Jung0Yonghyeon Jo1Young-Joon Kim2Department of Electric Vehicle Engineering, Dongshin University, Jeollanam-do 58245, KoreaDepartment of Energy Mechanical Facility, Dongshin University, Jeollanam-do 58245, KoreaDepartment of Electronic Engineering, Gachon University, Gyeonggi-do 13120, KoreaFor a continuous surveillance mission using a swarm of multiple tethered low-altitude long-endurance (LALE) multirotor-type unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), we developed a 500 W class photovoltaic power management system (PPMS) which monitors voltage and current flows of photovoltaic (PV) panels, battery pack, and UAV and controls power flows to support UAV flight operation. In contract to a fixed-wing UAV, a tethered multirotor UAV can generate continuously varying closed-circuit television (CCTV) like ground map images by stitching incoming images though the operation range is limited. With an indoor flight experiment, we demonstrated the usefulness of the PPMS and proved operation integrity. According to the results, a total of six multirotor UAVs were required to continuously perform a surveillance mission for 5 h 46 min from 11:04 to 16:50.https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/12/7/1323low-altitude long-endurance (LALE)photovoltaic power management system (PPMS)unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) |
| spellingShingle | Sunghun Jung Yonghyeon Jo Young-Joon Kim Aerial Surveillance with Low-Altitude Long-Endurance Tethered Multirotor UAVs Using Photovoltaic Power Management System Energies low-altitude long-endurance (LALE) photovoltaic power management system (PPMS) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) |
| title | Aerial Surveillance with Low-Altitude Long-Endurance Tethered Multirotor UAVs Using Photovoltaic Power Management System |
| title_full | Aerial Surveillance with Low-Altitude Long-Endurance Tethered Multirotor UAVs Using Photovoltaic Power Management System |
| title_fullStr | Aerial Surveillance with Low-Altitude Long-Endurance Tethered Multirotor UAVs Using Photovoltaic Power Management System |
| title_full_unstemmed | Aerial Surveillance with Low-Altitude Long-Endurance Tethered Multirotor UAVs Using Photovoltaic Power Management System |
| title_short | Aerial Surveillance with Low-Altitude Long-Endurance Tethered Multirotor UAVs Using Photovoltaic Power Management System |
| title_sort | aerial surveillance with low altitude long endurance tethered multirotor uavs using photovoltaic power management system |
| topic | low-altitude long-endurance (LALE) photovoltaic power management system (PPMS) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/12/7/1323 |
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