Automatic wireless drone charging station creating essential environment for continuous drone operation

Choi, Chung Hoon; Jang, Hyeon Jun; Lim, Seong Gyu; Lim, Hyun Chul; Cho, Sung Ho; Gaponov, Igor

doi:10.1109/iccais.2016.7822448

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“…In [284], the authors corporate the GPS system with camera and image processing system to detect the charging station. The authors in [280] allow for imprecise landing on wide frame landing pad. Then a wireless charging transmitting coil is stationed perfectly in the bottom of the UAV by using a stepper motor and two laser distance sensors.…”

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs): A Survey on Civil Applications and Key Research Challenges

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The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is growing rapidly across many civil application domains including realtime monitoring, providing wireless coverage, remote sensing, search and rescue, delivery of goods, security and surveillance, precision agriculture, and civil infrastructure inspection. Smart UAVs are the next big revolution in UAV technology promising to provide new opportunities in different applications, especially in civil infrastructure in terms of reduced risks and lower cost. Civil infrastructure is expected to dominate the more that $45 Billion market value of UAV usage. In this survey, we present UAV civil applications and their challenges. We also discuss current research trends and provide future insights for potential UAV uses. Furthermore, we present the key challenges for UAV civil applications, including: charging challenges, collision avoidance and swarming challenges, and networking and security related challenges. Based on our review of the recent literature, we discuss open research challenges and draw high-level insights on how these challenges might be approached.

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs): A Survey on Civil Applications and Key Research Challenges

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“…Currently, most of the small UASs are powered by lithium-ion or lithium polymer batteries and their flight endurance is limited to a few hours. Consequently, prolonging the battery life of UAS is one of the key research agendas, and methods like wireless charging (Choi et al, 2016), developing effective UAS designs (Larsen et al, 2017) and investigating the use of fuel-cells (Kim et al, 2011) contribute to this agenda. Another prominent research area in geographical information science having close ties with research on UAS is the 3D urban modelling (Biljecki et al, 2015).…”

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“…In this way, maximum time would be spared for delivery and minimal time for recharging an UAS. Wireless charging is one of the key areas offering a solution to this challenge as UAS leaving a parcel on a CDP could effectively benefit (Choi et al, 2016). In addition, exploration of the electro-chemical properties of Li-ion batteries has shown to enhance the battery recharging time as well as its duration period (Wang et al, 2016).…”

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Parcel Delivery in an Urban Environment Using Unmanned Aerial Systems: A Vision Paper

Anbaroğlu

2017

ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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ABSTRACT:This vision paper addresses the challenges and explores the avenue of solutions regarding the use of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) for transporting parcels in urban areas. We have already witnessed companies' delivering parcels using UAS in rural areas, but the challenge of utilizing them for an urban environment is eminent. Nevertheless, the increasing research on the various aspects of UAS, including their battery life, resistance to harsh weather conditions and sensing its environment foresee their common usage in the logistics industry, especially in an urban environment. In addition, the increasing trend on 3D city modelling offer new directions regarding realistic as well as light 3D city models that are easy to modify and distribute. Utilizing UAS for transporting parcels in an urban environment would be a disruptive technological achievement as our roads will be less congested which would lead to less air pollution as well as wasted money and time. In addition, parcels could potentially be delivered much faster. This paper argues, with the support of the state-of-the-art research, that UASs will be used for transporting parcels in an urban environment in the coming decades.

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“…The major issues to recharge drone batteries by WPT systems are described in several past works [14][15][16][17][18][19]. In [14], two circular planar spiral coils have been used for both primary and secondary circuits of a WPT system, the main disadvantages of this configuration are the significant weight and dimension of the on-board components that reduce the payload of the drone.…”

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“…In [15], an automatic landing procedure is presented to improve the landing precision reducing the possibility of misalignment condition between the transmitting and the receiving coils. A WPT charging system based on a mobile primary coil was presented in [16]. This system is based on a mechanic system to align the primary coil with the on-board secondary coil after landing.…”

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Wireless Power Transfer Technology Applied to an Autonomous Electric UAV with a Small Secondary Coil

2018

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This study deals with the design and the optimization of a wireless power transfer (WPT) charging system based on magnetic resonant coupling applied to an electric vertical take-off and landing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). In this study, a procedure for primary and secondary coil design is proposed. The primary circuit in the ground station consists of an array of coils in order to mitigate the negative effects on the coupling factor produced by the possible misalignment between the coils due to an imperfect landing. Key aspects for the design of the secondary coil onboard the UAV are the lightness and compactness of the WPT system components. A demonstrative prototype of the WPT system is applied to a commercial drone. The WPT electrical performances are calculated and measured. Finally, an automatic battery recharge station is built where the drone can autonomously land, recharge the battery and take off to continue its flight mission.

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Automatic wireless drone charging station creating essential environment for continuous drone operation

Cited by 102 publications

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs): A Survey on Civil Applications and Key Research Challenges

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs): A Survey on Civil Applications and Key Research Challenges

Parcel Delivery in an Urban Environment Using Unmanned Aerial Systems: A Vision Paper

Wireless Power Transfer Technology Applied to an Autonomous Electric UAV with a Small Secondary Coil

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