NDLI: Autonomous Inductive Charging System for Battery-operated Electric Drones

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Chau, Chi-Kin Khonji, Majid Tseng, Chien-Ming Alshehhi, Mohammed
Abstract	Electric drones have a wide range of applications due to the convenience and agility. One of the main hurdles for their wide deployment and full automation is the battery life limitation and the need for manual intervention for charging. In this work, we present a solar powered charging system capable of automatically charging battery-powered drones in remote locations. We developed a tethered robotic rover equipped with a 2D Lidar sensor to detect and localize a drone, and a robotic arm equipped with an inductive charging pad. The charging pad senses current measurements from individual inductive coils, and adjusts accordingly the robotic arm position to maximize charging rate. Such system, in principal, can cater for arbitrary drone shapes and landing positions and is less susceptible to external lighting and environmental conditions by the use of Lidar and current sensors instead of computer vision. We remark that our system can be also applied to charging other small electric vehicles.
Starting Page	322
Ending Page	327
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781450350365
DOI	10.1145/3077839.3078462
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2017-05-16
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Inductive charging Electric vehicles Robotics Drones
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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Autonomous Inductive Charging System for Battery-operated Electric Drones