An Automatic Platform for Landing and Charging of UAVs to Extend UAV Operations

Aboumrad, Anthony; Haun, Joseph A.; McGinnis, A.L.; Wu, Nansong

doi:10.1109/dcoss49796.2020.00061

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“…A docking station with landing guidance and a wireless charging pad is presented in [37]. No additional computer vision systems have to be added to the UAV; thus, it could be a viable option to be used with low-cost or micro-UAVs.…”

Section: Fixed Docking Stationmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Decade of UAV Docking Stations: A Brief Overview of Mobile and Fixed Landing Platforms

Grlj

Krznar²,

Pranjic

2022

Drones

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles have advanced rapidly in the last two decades with the advances in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology. It is crucial, however, to design better power supply technologies. In the last decade, lithium polymer and lithium-ion batteries have mainly been used to power multirotor UAVs. Even though batteries have been improved and are constantly being improved, they provide fairly low energy density, which limits multirotors’ UAV flight endurance. This problem is addressed and is being partially solved by using docking stations which provide an aircraft to land safely, charge (or change) the batteries and to take-off as well as being safely stored. This paper focuses on the work carried out in the last decade. Different docking stations are presented with a focus on their movement abilities. Rapid advances in computer vision systems gave birth to precise landing systems. These algorithms are the main reason that docking stations became a viable solution. The authors concluded that the docking station solution to short ranges is a viable option, and numerous extensive studies have been carried out that offer different solutions, but only some types, mainly fixed stations with storage systems, have been implemented and are being used today. This can be seen from the commercially available list of docking stations at the end of this paper. Nevertheless, it is important to be aware of the technologies being developed and implemented, which can offer solutions to a vast number of different problems.

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Section: Fixed Docking Stationmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Decade of UAV Docking Stations: A Brief Overview of Mobile and Fixed Landing Platforms

Grlj

Krznar²,

Pranjic

2022

Drones

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“…There are many collaborative strategies between UVs that can be planned and implemented for unmanned OWT IMR operations. In most cases, the involvement of a USV in any collaboration will assist a UAV or UUV in terms of functioning as a docking and power charging station [50,80], providing extra computing power and data storage capacity [60,61], as a communication hub between all other UVs and GCS [25,51], as well as providing a reliable localization and navigation system [60], as will be further discussed in this section. Table 3 presents a summary of the benefits and challenges associated with different collaboration strategies.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…It can also add extra weight to the UAV [124], thus reducing the payload capacity for carrying IMR tools. Nonetheless, using collaborative strategies as discussed in the previous section, the UAV can make use of the USV as a nearby wireless data processing and storage system provider [60,61], as well as a power hub to prolong the UAV operation time [50,80].…”

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Collaborative Unmanned Vehicles for Inspection, Maintenance, and Repairs of Offshore Wind Turbines

Nordin

Sharma

Khan

et al. 2022

Drones

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Operations and maintenance of Offshore Wind Turbines (OWTs) are challenging, with manual operators constantly exposed to hazardous environments. Due to the high task complexity associated with the OWT, the transition to unmanned solutions remains stagnant. Efforts toward unmanned operations have been observed using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) but are limited mostly to visual inspections only. Collaboration strategies between unmanned vehicles have introduced several opportunities that would enable unmanned operations for the OWT maintenance and repair activities. There have been many papers and reviews on collaborative UVs. However, most of the past papers reviewed collaborative UVs for surveillance purposes, search and rescue missions, and agricultural activities. This review aims to present the current capabilities of Unmanned Vehicles (UVs) used in OWT for Inspection, Maintenance, and Repair (IMR) operations. Strategies to implement collaborative UVs for complex tasks and their associated challenges are discussed together with the strategies to solve localization and navigation issues, prolong operation time, and establish effective communication within the OWT IMR operations. This paper also briefly discusses the potential failure modes for collaborative approaches and possible redundancy strategies to manage them. The collaborative strategies discussed herein will be of use to researchers and technology providers in identifying significant gaps that have hindered the implementation of full unmanned systems which have significant impacts towards the net zero strategy.

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Brief Introduction to Unmanned Aerial Systems

Orgeira-Crespo,

García-Luis

2024

Management and Industrial Engineering

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An Automatic Platform for Landing and Charging of UAVs to Extend UAV Operations

Cited by 8 publications

References 4 publications

A Decade of UAV Docking Stations: A Brief Overview of Mobile and Fixed Landing Platforms

A Decade of UAV Docking Stations: A Brief Overview of Mobile and Fixed Landing Platforms

Collaborative Unmanned Vehicles for Inspection, Maintenance, and Repairs of Offshore Wind Turbines

Brief Introduction to Unmanned Aerial Systems

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