TY - JOUR
T1 - Near-field Wireless Power Transfer Technology for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
T2 - A Systematical Review
AU - Mou, Xiaolin
AU - Gladwin, Daniel
AU - Jiang, Jing
AU - Li, Kang
AU - Yang, Zhile
N1 - Funding information: This research is supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 872172 TESTBED2 project, and National Science Foundation of China under grants 52077213 and 62003332.
PY - 2023/1/1
Y1 - 2023/1/1
N2 - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) technology has seen a significant boost in the past ten years and has been widely adopted in entertainment, rescue, intelligent transportation, notouch delivery, environmental monitoring and other real world applications. However, the ranging limitation due to the shortage of battery energy capacity remains a major issue hindering further development of UAVs. Wireless power transfer (WPT) technology is a new technology of great potentials in improving the endurance of UAVs. The integration of WPT into UAV not only activates the recharging of UAVs batteries, but also enables UAVs to recharge other devices. Moreover, wireless charging technology allows the device to be fully enclosed and suitable for harsh weather conditions. This paper presents a comprehensive review in regard to the state-of-the-art of nearf ield WPT technologies for UAV charging, including technologies characteristics, design issues, as well as multiple case studies. A comparative analysis of existing technologies are also presented, associated with key future research discussions of WPT for UAVs.
AB - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) technology has seen a significant boost in the past ten years and has been widely adopted in entertainment, rescue, intelligent transportation, notouch delivery, environmental monitoring and other real world applications. However, the ranging limitation due to the shortage of battery energy capacity remains a major issue hindering further development of UAVs. Wireless power transfer (WPT) technology is a new technology of great potentials in improving the endurance of UAVs. The integration of WPT into UAV not only activates the recharging of UAVs batteries, but also enables UAVs to recharge other devices. Moreover, wireless charging technology allows the device to be fully enclosed and suitable for harsh weather conditions. This paper presents a comprehensive review in regard to the state-of-the-art of nearf ield WPT technologies for UAV charging, including technologies characteristics, design issues, as well as multiple case studies. A comparative analysis of existing technologies are also presented, associated with key future research discussions of WPT for UAVs.
KW - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
KW - Wireless power transfer (WPT)
U2 - 10.1109/JESTIE.2022.3213138
DO - 10.1109/JESTIE.2022.3213138
M3 - Review article
SN - 2687-9735
VL - 4
SP - 147
EP - 158
JO - IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics
JF - IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics
IS - 1
ER -
