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Improving Electric Powered UAVs’ Endurance by Incorporating Battery Dumping Concept

Tan Chang, +1 more
- 01 Jan 2015 - 
- Vol. 99, pp 168-179
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In this paper, the impact factors affecting the endurance performance of UAVs with battery-dumping capability such as the battery dumping system (BDS) weight ratio, battery mounting and dumping device (BMDD), battery packs count and battery dumping strategy were studied and discussed.
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This article is published in Procedia Engineering.The article was published on 2015-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 34 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Battery (electricity).

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Wireless Charging Techniques for UAVs: A Review, Reconceptualization, and Extension

TL;DR: This study focuses on presenting wireless techniques available for drone mission duration improvement as well as discuss and practically examine the most feasible and reliable technique to charge UAV using power lines.
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Minimum-energy path generation for a quadrotor UAV

TL;DR: The electrical model of a brushless DC motor is used to determine minimum-energy paths between a predefined initial and final configuration of a quadrotor by solving an optimal control problem with respect to the angular accelerations of the four propellers.
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Designing airspace for urban air mobility: A review of concepts and approaches

TL;DR: There is a need for a new branch of research that analyzes urban air mobility from the perspective of urban planning, including issues around zoning, air rights, public transportation, real estate development, public acceptance, and access inequalities.
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A new approach to calculating endurance in electric flight and comparing fuel cells and batteries

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the performance of battery-based and fuel-cell-based powertrains for low-energy UAVs with the same aircraft powered by different kinds of Lithium batteries sized to match the energy stored in the hydrogen tank.
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A Review on UAV Wireless Charging: Fundamentals, Applications, Charging Techniques and Standards

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a comprehensive comparative study on wireless charging of UAVs conducted by prominent research laboratories, universities, and industries, and discuss UAV history, UAV structure, categories of drones, mathematical formulation of coil and WPT standards for safer operation.
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Range and Endurance Estimates for Battery-Powered Aircraft

TL;DR: In this article, the authors derived expressions to estimate the range and endurance of a battery-powered electric aircraft, accounting for battery discharge behavior and the impact of ignoring the Peukert effect.

Engineering Notes Range and Endurance Estimates for Battery-Powered Aircraft

TL;DR: Estimates are derived to estimate the range and endurance of a battery-powered electric aircraft, accounting for battery discharge behavior, and the impact of ignoring the Peukert effect is investigated.
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Optimizing Electric Propulsion Systems for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the propeller model and a model of the electric system, together with various optimization schemes, to design optimal propulsion systems for a mini unmanned aerial vehicle for various goals and under various constraints.
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Efficiency Analysis for Long -Duration Electric MAVs

TL;DR: In this article, the Fourier series coefficient for V [V] p D = propeller section drag [N] emf V = motor back EMF volta ge[V]
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