RESEARCH ON IMPROVING THE AUTONOMY OF MISSIONS EXECUTED BY UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES – UAV

VASILE PLEŞCA; CONSTANTIN GHIŢĂ

doi:10.36801/

Authors

VASILE PLEŞCA Universitatea Politehnica din Bucureşti
CONSTANTIN GHIŢĂ Universitatea Politehnica din Bucureşti

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36801/

Keywords:

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES, AUTONOMY

Abstract

In order to increase the autonomy of missions executed by unmanned ships – UAV, an experimental stand was created to serve in automatically charging Li-Po batteries that charge-up drones with multiple engines, without disconnecting them from the drone support. Generally speaking, the electrical current necessary even for a standard mission is quite high, and a professional charger has a weight of over 800 grams, the weight that will diminish a lot the useful weight of the drone. So the solution found will be to create an automatic charger with two modules, that will also include a personalized BMS for charging/discharging the batteries safely. In this paper, we will present the research done on various specialized chargers with different powers and various configurations of batteries in order to find an optimal algorithm to be implemented on the experimental stand created.

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