TY - CONF
T1 - UAV recharging using non-contact wireless power transfer
AU - Simic, Milan
AU - Bil, Cees
AU - Vojisavljevic, Vuk
AU - Perilla, Juan Pablo Alvarado
N1 - Funding Information:
We acknowledge precious discussions with A. Bosma, B. Bassett, M. Bruni, R. Giovanelli, and F. Vernizzi. F. P. thanks the Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille for hospitality. C. M. acknowledges financial support from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the Region PACA.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - This paper proposes application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)s for infrastructure inspection, such as power lines and support towers, where energy for the UAV could be gathered from the green sources, or collected from electromagnetic fields generated around the power distribution lines. This type of UAV application could, also, include monitoring buildings, agriculture areas, or water processing plants, where solar energy could be utilised. The proposal in this paper is focused on inductive and resonant inductive couplings. The concept of powering UAV, while inspecting high voltage power lines, is based on energy harvesting from electromagnetic field, at close vicinity of the conducting wires. The entire power line is acting as an infinitely long antenna.
AB - This paper proposes application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)s for infrastructure inspection, such as power lines and support towers, where energy for the UAV could be gathered from the green sources, or collected from electromagnetic fields generated around the power distribution lines. This type of UAV application could, also, include monitoring buildings, agriculture areas, or water processing plants, where solar energy could be utilised. The proposal in this paper is focused on inductive and resonant inductive couplings. The concept of powering UAV, while inspecting high voltage power lines, is based on energy harvesting from electromagnetic field, at close vicinity of the conducting wires. The entire power line is acting as an infinitely long antenna.
KW - Inductive coupling
KW - Power line inspection
KW - Resonant inductive coupling
KW - UAV
KW - Wireless energy transfer
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AN - SCOPUS:84978766921
SP - 624
EP - 633
T2 - 7th Asia-Pacific International Symposium on Aerospace Technology, APISAT 2015
Y2 - 25 November 2015 through 27 November 2015
ER -