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Design and Analysis of a 35 GHz Rectenna System for Wireless Power Transfer to an Unmanned Air Vehicle

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  • Muttahid Ull Hoque

    (Department of Electrical Engineering, Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, QC H3T 1J4, Canada)

  • Deepak Kumar

    (Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1K 2R1, Canada)

  • Yves Audet

    (Department of Electrical Engineering, Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, QC H3T 1J4, Canada)

  • Yvon Savaria

    (Department of Electrical Engineering, Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, QC H3T 1J4, Canada)

Abstract

In this article, the concept of a 22-kW microwave-powered unmanned aerial vehicle is presented. Its system architecture is analyzed and modeled for wirelessly transferring microwave power to the flying UAVs. The microwave system transmitting power at a 35 GHz frequency was found to be suitable for low-cost and compact architectures. The size of the transmitting and receiving systems are optimized to 108 m 2 and 90 m 2 , respectively. A linearly polarized 4 × 2 rectangular microstrip patch antenna array has been designed and simulated to obtain a high gain, high directivity, and high efficiency in order to satisfy the power transfer requirements. The numerically simulated gain, directivity, and efficiency of the proposed patch antenna array are 13.4 dBi, 14 dBi, and 85%, respectively. Finally, a rectifying system (rectenna) is optimized using the Agilent advanced design system (ADS) software as a microwave power receiving system. The proposed rectenna at the core of the system has an efficiency profile of more than 80% for an RF input power range of 9 to 18 dBm. Moreover, the RF-to-DC conversion efficiency and DC output voltage of the proposed rectenna are 80% and 3.5 V, respectively, for a 10 dBm input power at 35 GHz with a load of 1500 Ω.

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  • Muttahid Ull Hoque & Deepak Kumar & Yves Audet & Yvon Savaria, 2022. "Design and Analysis of a 35 GHz Rectenna System for Wireless Power Transfer to an Unmanned Air Vehicle," Energies, MDPI, vol. 15(1), pages 1-19, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:15:y:2022:i:1:p:320-:d:716937
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