Energy Harvesting Mechanisms for a Solar Photovoltaic Plant Monitoring Drone: Thermal Soaring and Bioinspiration

Gammill, Mariah; Sherman, Michelle; Raissi, Ali; Hassanalian, Mostafa

doi:10.2514/6.2021-1053

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“…UAVs can also be used for inspecting pipelines, power transmission lines, wind turbines, and more. As stated earlier, Gammill et al report that drones can be 97% more efficient in solar farm inspections when compared to manual inspections [67]. Similarly, Patel et al report the use of drones for image capture from solar farms for defect detection in photovoltaic (PV) arrays [301].…”

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confidence: 97%

“…Drone use in the energy sector is also expected to grow to 8.4 billion dollars by 2025 [66]. According to Gammill et al, drones can be used on solar farms for inspections and are 97% more efficient than manual inspections, taking only 10 minutes per MW of solar [67]. On wind farms, drones can be used to inspect a wind turbine in as little as 40 minutes for all three blades [68], [69].…”

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confidence: 99%

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The use of drones, formally known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), has significantly increased across a variety of applications over the past few years. This is due to the rapid advancement towards the design and production of inexpensive and dependable UAVs and the growing request for the utilization of such platforms particularly in civil applications. With their intrinsic attributes such as high mobility, rapid deployment and flexible altitude, UAVs have the potential to be utilized in many wireless system applications. On the one hand, UAVs are able to operate as flying mobile terminals within wireless/cellular networks to support a variety of missions such as goods delivery, search and rescue, precision agriculture monitoring, and remote sensing. On the other hand, UAVs can be utilized as aerial base stations to increase wireless communication coverage, reliability, and the capacity of wireless systems without additional investment in wireless systems infrastructure. The aim of this article is to review the current applications of UAVs for civil and commercial purposes. The focus of this paper is on the challenges and communication requirements associated with UAV-based communication systems. This article initially classifies UAVs in terms of various parameters, some of which can impact UAVs' communication performance. It then provides an overview of aerial networking and investigates UAVs routing protocols specifically, which are considered as one of the challenges in UAV communication. This article later investigates the use of UAV networks in a variety of civil applications and considers many challenges and communication demands of these applications. Subsequently, different types of simulation platforms are investigated from a communication and networking viewpoint. Finally, it identifies areas of future research.

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Effects of Avian Wings Color Patterns on Their Flight Performance: Experimental and Computational Studies

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Analysis of Weed Communities in Solar Farms Located in Tropical Areas—The Case of Malaysia

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Weed management in large-scale solar photovoltaic (LSS-PV) farms has become a great concern to the solar industry due to scarcity of labour and the ever-increasing price of pesticides, which opens up possibilities for integrated farming, also known as agrivoltaics. Improper weed control may have multiple negative impacts such as permanent shading of the module surface, pest housing which damages communication cables, and even bush fires. The shaded PV modules can be heated up to extreme temperatures, causing costly burn-out damage. Critical information on the types of weeds on solar farms, especially in Malaysia, has not been established to support the concept of weed management. Thus, with this study, detailed composition of the weed community was obtained via quadrat sampling between solar PV modules, near ground equipment, near perimeter fencing, and directly underneath the PV modules. Weed-control measures via high-quality weedmat installation under solar PV arrays have been implemented where this approach can be considered effective on solar farms based on the existing PV structure height and equipment constraints plus the increasing cost for labour and agricultural inputs. This work underlines the proposed Agrivoltaic for Large Scale Solar (Agrivoltaic4LSS) program to complement the solar industry in Malaysia towards an agrivoltaic, eco-friendly approach to weed management.

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Energy Harvesting Mechanisms for a Solar Photovoltaic Plant Monitoring Drone: Thermal Soaring and Bioinspiration

Cited by 4 publications

References 8 publications

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Communications for Civil Applications: A Review

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Communications for Civil Applications: A Review

Effects of Avian Wings Color Patterns on Their Flight Performance: Experimental and Computational Studies

Analysis of Weed Communities in Solar Farms Located in Tropical Areas—The Case of Malaysia

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