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Autonomous Inductive Charging System for Battery-operated Electric Drones

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Mohammed Alshehhi,

Chien-Ming Tseng, and

Chi-Kin ChauAuthors Info & Claims

e-Energy '17: Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Future Energy Systems

May 2017

Pages 322 - 327

https://doi.org/10.1145/3077839.3078462

Published: 16 May 2017 Publication History

Abstract

Electric drones have a wide range of applications due to the convenience and agility. One of the main hurdles for their wide deployment and full automation is the battery life limitation and the need for manual intervention for charging. In this work, we present a solar powered charging system capable of automatically charging battery-powered drones in remote locations. We developed a tethered robotic rover equipped with a 2D Lidar sensor to detect and localize a drone, and a robotic arm equipped with an inductive charging pad. The charging pad senses current measurements from individual inductive coils, and adjusts accordingly the robotic arm position to maximize charging rate. Such system, in principal, can cater for arbitrary drone shapes and landing positions and is less susceptible to external lighting and environmental conditions by the use of Lidar and current sensors instead of computer vision. We remark that our system can be also applied to charging other small electric vehicles.

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