Wired Supply For Aerial Drone In Harsh Environment : Power Management

Zainal Abidin, Mohamad Azwan (2017) Wired Supply For Aerial Drone In Harsh Environment : Power Management. Project Report. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

A quadcopter is an aerial vehicle that uses four rotors for lift, steering, and stabilization. Unlike other aerial vehicles, the quadcopter can achieve vertical flight in a more stable condition and the use of battery powered unmanned aerial vehicles are quite common among hobby flayers and aerial photographers. But the main problem with battery operated aerial vehicle is its flight time because the commercial unmanned aerial vehicles or in other names is drone has up to 20-40 flight with replaceable dual battery configuration. Each battery takes 100 minutes to recharge. A tethered UAV is capable of solving this issue. This research addresses the power optimization problem of a tethered quadcopter for mini payload or high payload long time hovering. Tethered quadcopters are unmanned aerial vehicles with ability of vertical take-off, landings and hovering at a desired location. In already existing tethered UAV’s the power consumption is not optimum due to the lack of proper knowledge about the power parameters like voltage, current and throttle level. So in this thesis will concentrate on findings the optimum value of parameters to be fed to the quadcopters for a particular payload value.

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