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Aerial Surveillance with Low-Altitude Long-Endurance Tethered Multirotor UAVs Using Photovoltaic Power Management System

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  • Sunghun Jung

    (Department of Electric Vehicle Engineering, Dongshin University, Jeollanam-do 58245, Korea)

  • Yonghyeon Jo

    (Department of Energy Mechanical Facility, Dongshin University, Jeollanam-do 58245, Korea)

  • Young-Joon Kim

    (Department of Electronic Engineering, Gachon University, Gyeonggi-do 13120, Korea)

Abstract

For a continuous surveillance mission using a swarm of multiple tethered low-altitude long-endurance (LALE) multirotor-type unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), we developed a 500 W class photovoltaic power management system (PPMS) which monitors voltage and current flows of photovoltaic (PV) panels, battery pack, and UAV and controls power flows to support UAV flight operation. In contract to a fixed-wing UAV, a tethered multirotor UAV can generate continuously varying closed-circuit television (CCTV) like ground map images by stitching incoming images though the operation range is limited. With an indoor flight experiment, we demonstrated the usefulness of the PPMS and proved operation integrity. According to the results, a total of six multirotor UAVs were required to continuously perform a surveillance mission for 5 h 46 min from 11:04 to 16:50.

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  • Sunghun Jung & Yonghyeon Jo & Young-Joon Kim, 2019. "Aerial Surveillance with Low-Altitude Long-Endurance Tethered Multirotor UAVs Using Photovoltaic Power Management System," Energies, MDPI, vol. 12(7), pages 1-14, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:12:y:2019:i:7:p:1323-:d:220532
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    1. Sunghun Jung & Heon Jeong, 2017. "Extended Kalman Filter-Based State of Charge and State of Power Estimation Algorithm for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Li-Po Battery Packs," Energies, MDPI, vol. 10(8), pages 1-13, August.
    2. Bojan Kranjec & Sasa Sladic & Wojciech Giernacki & Neven Bulic, 2018. "PV System Design and Flight Efficiency Considerations for Fixed-Wing Radio-Controlled Aircraft—A Case Study," Energies, MDPI, vol. 11(10), pages 1-12, October.
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