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A Novel Energy Harvester for Powering Small UAVs: Performance Analysis, Model Validation and Flight Results

Patrizia LivreriRocco CitroniFranco Di Paolo

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Battery (electricity)Computer scienceTerahertz radiation02 engineering and technologylcsh:Chemical technologyBiochemistryenergy harvesterSettore ING-INF/01 - ElettronicaEnergy harvesterAutomotive engineeringArticleAnalytical ChemistryModel validationnano-antennanano-antennasdipole rectenna array0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineeringlcsh:TP1-1185Electrical and Electronic EngineeringInstrumentationPlasmonPower densityenergy harvester; MAV; power consumption model; nano-antennas; dipole rectenna array; perpetual flightWork (physics)perpetual flightpower consumption model020206 networking & telecommunications021001 nanoscience & nanotechnologyAtomic and Molecular Physics and OpticsRectenna0210 nano-technologyMAVEnergy (signal processing)

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The proposed work aims at exploring and developing new strategies to extend mission parameters (measured as travel distance and mission duration (MD)) of a new class of unmanned vehicles, named Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs). In this paper, a new analytical model, identifying all factors, which determine the MAV power consumption, is presented. Starting from the new model, the design of a nanoarray energy harvester, based on plasmonics nano-antenna technology is proposed. The preliminary study was based on a 22,066,058 22,066,058 &times

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2019-04-13
10.3390/s19081771http://hdl.handle.net/10447/351859