Design and implementation of a power management module for a MUAV

Autor: Torres-Ortega, H., García-Torales, G., Estrada-Marmolejo, R., Flores, Jorge L.
Zdroj: Proceedings of SPIE; September 2011, Vol. 8112 Issue: 1 p811210-811210-14
Abstrakt: The implementation of a photovoltaic and an electronic module that manages the energy improves the flight time and the autonomy performance in an UAV. The module consists in a device that tracking the maximum power point of PV module by a PWM current-voltage regulation to charge a Li-Po battery. Characterization and modeling of crystalline and amorphous solar cells has been made. Our simulation estimates speed of battery charge. As a result, we increase the autonomy of the battery charge which is reflected in a UAV that performs tasks in fewer flights and without human supervision.
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