TY - GEN
T1 - Solar powered UAV
T2 - IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2015
AU - Morton, Scott
AU - D'Sa, Ruben
AU - Papanikolopoulos, Nikolaos P
PY - 2015/12/11
Y1 - 2015/12/11
N2 - Unmanned solar powered aircraft offer a unique set of advanced capabilities and have set general aviation records for longest continuous flight and greatest sustained altitude. However, the application of solar powered flight to small scale solar powered unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has seen sparse research activity and is only partially explored. The use of solar power as an energy resource allows small scale UAVs to carry heavier, more powerful sensor payloads, and can extend flight times to over 24 hours, thereby achieving multi-day flight. This work focuses on recent developments by the Center for Distributed Robotics on a four meter wingspan solar UAV designed for low altitude aerial sensing applications. Highlighted in this paper are aspects of airframe, propulsion, and electronics hardware design as well as experiments that quantify the solar power system and airframe performance.
AB - Unmanned solar powered aircraft offer a unique set of advanced capabilities and have set general aviation records for longest continuous flight and greatest sustained altitude. However, the application of solar powered flight to small scale solar powered unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has seen sparse research activity and is only partially explored. The use of solar power as an energy resource allows small scale UAVs to carry heavier, more powerful sensor payloads, and can extend flight times to over 24 hours, thereby achieving multi-day flight. This work focuses on recent developments by the Center for Distributed Robotics on a four meter wingspan solar UAV designed for low altitude aerial sensing applications. Highlighted in this paper are aspects of airframe, propulsion, and electronics hardware design as well as experiments that quantify the solar power system and airframe performance.
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U2 - 10.1109/IROS.2015.7353711
DO - 10.1109/IROS.2015.7353711
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84958212951
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
SP - 2460
EP - 2466
BT - IROS Hamburg 2015 - Conference Digest
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 28 September 2015 through 2 October 2015
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