Design considerations of a small UAV platform carrying medium payloads

Benito, Juan Alberto; Glez-de-Rivera, Guillermo; Garrido, Javier; Ponticelli, Roberto

doi:10.1109/dcis.2014.7035583

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“…Due to the average battery life of an MAV dipping between 10 and 20 minutes, limited flight times are among the main obstacles for MAV innovation [21,22]. Eventually, a study for flight time advancement up to approximately 30 minutes has been carried out by [23]. WPT via magnetic resonance coupling is one of the potential approaches for supplying power to MAVs to overcome restrictions.…”

Section: Inductive Power Transfermentioning

confidence: 99%

A Comparative Review on Acoustic and Inductive Power Transfer

Muhammad Izzul Syafiq Faiz,

Md Rabiul Awal,

Md Rubel Basar

et al. 2024

ARASET

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Wireless Power Transmission (WPT) has emerged as a prominent player in numerous industries recently. It is already established in wireless charging for electric cars and electronic gadgets. However, it has promising applications in medical implants and imaging as well. Among several proposals, Inductive Power Transfer (IPT) and Acoustic Power Transfer (APT) have shown a major impact on this area of interest. This paper presents a comparison between IPT and APT for wireless power transmission (WPT). Most recent proposals are reported, and several key parameters are considered to evaluate the proposals. That includes operating frequencies, separations gaps, powers and power transmission efficiencies and experimental validity. It is found from the review that; a maximum 818 kW of power is transmitted using IPT for electric vehicles. However, APT can transmit 1.068 kW and 5.4 W through wall and in-body medium (implants). Over 90% efficiencies are found for both APT and IPT. In fact, power transfer with 95.66% efficiency over a 6 cm distance of 23.4 W is achieved for APT and 95.6% with 20 cm separation gaps is achieved for IPT for 20 kW power. A wide range of frequencies are applied for both APT and IPT. However, lower frequencies are mostly suitable for high power, more specifically less than MHz ranges. Naturally, lower frequencies are preferable for low power high efficiencies.

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Section: Inductive Power Transfermentioning

confidence: 99%

A Comparative Review on Acoustic and Inductive Power Transfer

Muhammad Izzul Syafiq Faiz,

Md Rabiul Awal,

Md Rubel Basar

et al. 2024

ARASET

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“…Small attributable platforms are emerging as new vehicles that can enable a multitude of tasks (e.g., support of commercial disaster recovery operations including wild-fire communications relays with command centers, etc.). The design and constraint requirements for a medium size unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) are presented in Table 1 as defined in [8]. The payload size, weight, and power (SWAP) requirements are crucial metrics that need to be considered when designing the CCS architecture such that it can fit adequately within the bay of the platform, take advantage of platform power, and not exceed the maximum weight capacity, which would undoubtedly limit operations.…”

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Cognitive Communications System for Ultra-Low Size, Weight and Power (SWAP) Attributable Platforms

2022

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Communications resiliency and data distribution assurance has been compromised in highly competitive, dynamic, and stressing environments with the introduction of off the shelf, high performing jammers. This paper introduces a novel cognitive communications system that can be fielded on small attributable platforms; the architecture amalgamates a highly capable environmentally perceptive aperture, a software defined radio, and sophisticated networking techniques. The proposed cognitive communications system uses the 5G new radio waveform and applies groundbreaking machine learning methods to facilitate systems orchestration amongst its subsystems to transfer information effectively between nodes, and across large-scale multi-hop networks, essential for rapid strike missions. With the challenges imposed by mature and readily available jammers, a cognitive communications system can be used to maintain and sustain continuous communications to provide near real-time surveillance and situational awareness updates. In addition to describing the comprehensive cognitive communications system architecture, a jamming analysis will be presented. Performance results for an operational use case will be compared to existing trite architectures consisting of siloed apertures and standard radio systems to demonstrate an improvement of approximately 10 dB in communications margin with the auspicious technology offering of the cognitive communications system for low size, weight, and power attributable platforms.

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“…The motors have the most power consumption of all of the components on quadrotor type UAV, so that is why the autonomy is given by the motors battery. This is going to be an 8 cells LiPo battery with a capacity of 22000 mAh, which will provide between 25 and 30 minutes flight, considering that the UAV weigh 7.5 Kg including structure, batteries and electronics [17]. The electronics battery will be a 3 cells LiPo.…”

Section: Autonomy Studymentioning

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Setup of a communication and control systems of a quadrotor type Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

Crespo¹,

Glez-de-Rivera²,

Garrido³

et al. 2014

Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems

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This paper outlines the communication and control systems of a quadrotor type Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. The communication system comprises two different links, one for data and other for video signal, and all integrated by an autopilot module. The data link will be implemented using XBee modules and Mavlink communication protocol. The video transmission system will consist of two separate links which can work together avoiding interferences by using orthogonal polarization each other. It is also given some insights of the onboard software architecture, which is based on the Pixhawk autopilot.

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Design considerations of a small UAV platform carrying medium payloads

Cited by 18 publications

References 11 publications

A Comparative Review on Acoustic and Inductive Power Transfer

A Comparative Review on Acoustic and Inductive Power Transfer

Cognitive Communications System for Ultra-Low Size, Weight and Power (SWAP) Attributable Platforms

Setup of a communication and control systems of a quadrotor type Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

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