Integration of Micro-Structured Photovoltaic Cells into the Ultra-Light Wing Structure for Extended Range Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

There have been large developments in the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) industry over the last decade. Although UAV development was mainly for military related use in the beginning and despite there being fear surrounding the release of this technology to the open market for quite a long time, nowa...

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Autores principales:	Octavian Narcis Ionescu, Ileana Cernica, Elena Manea, Catalin Parvulescu, Alin Istrate, Gabriela Ionescu, Mirela Petruta Suchea
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Materias:	photovoltaic integration microstructures ultra-light wing UAV Technology T Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) TA1-2040 Biology (General) QH301-705.5 Physics QC1-999 Chemistry QD1-999
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:6c97ff4431524b9fa586feb56ee0b38c2021-11-25T16:39:53ZIntegration of Micro-Structured Photovoltaic Cells into the Ultra-Light Wing Structure for Extended Range Unmanned Aerial Vehicles10.3390/app1122108902076-3417https://doaj.org/article/6c97ff4431524b9fa586feb56ee0b38c2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/22/10890https://doaj.org/toc/2076-3417There have been large developments in the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) industry over the last decade. Although UAV development was mainly for military related use in the beginning and despite there being fear surrounding the release of this technology to the open market for quite a long time, nowadays, there are a variety of applications where UAVs are used extensively, such as in agriculture, infrastructure inspection and monitoring, mobile retranslation relays for communications, etc. One of the weaknesses of electrically propelled UAVs is flight autonomy; there is often a difficult trade-of between the weight of the payload, batteries, and surface to be surveyed that is necessary to determine. There have been many attempts to use photovoltaic cells to increase the flight time for UAVs; however, a reliable solution has not yet been developed. The present paper presents improvements that have been conducted to extend the autonomy of electrically derived UAVs: instead of gluing photovoltaic cells on the wings, the new approach embeds the solar cells into the wing structure as well as develops a new wing that is significantly lighter to compensate for the weight added by the photovoltaic cells. It was demonstrated that by using this approach, a 33% increase in the flight time can be achieved with only one modified wing in a prototype vehicle.Octavian Narcis IonescuIleana CernicaElena ManeaCatalin ParvulescuAlin IstrateGabriela IonescuMirela Petruta SucheaMDPI AGarticlephotovoltaic integrationmicrostructuresultra-light wingUAVTechnologyTEngineering (General). Civil engineering (General)TA1-2040Biology (General)QH301-705.5PhysicsQC1-999ChemistryQD1-999ENApplied Sciences, Vol 11, Iss 10890, p 10890 (2021)
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topic	photovoltaic integration microstructures ultra-light wing UAV Technology T Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) TA1-2040 Biology (General) QH301-705.5 Physics QC1-999 Chemistry QD1-999
spellingShingle	photovoltaic integration microstructures ultra-light wing UAV Technology T Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) TA1-2040 Biology (General) QH301-705.5 Physics QC1-999 Chemistry QD1-999 Octavian Narcis Ionescu Ileana Cernica Elena Manea Catalin Parvulescu Alin Istrate Gabriela Ionescu Mirela Petruta Suchea Integration of Micro-Structured Photovoltaic Cells into the Ultra-Light Wing Structure for Extended Range Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
description	There have been large developments in the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) industry over the last decade. Although UAV development was mainly for military related use in the beginning and despite there being fear surrounding the release of this technology to the open market for quite a long time, nowadays, there are a variety of applications where UAVs are used extensively, such as in agriculture, infrastructure inspection and monitoring, mobile retranslation relays for communications, etc. One of the weaknesses of electrically propelled UAVs is flight autonomy; there is often a difficult trade-of between the weight of the payload, batteries, and surface to be surveyed that is necessary to determine. There have been many attempts to use photovoltaic cells to increase the flight time for UAVs; however, a reliable solution has not yet been developed. The present paper presents improvements that have been conducted to extend the autonomy of electrically derived UAVs: instead of gluing photovoltaic cells on the wings, the new approach embeds the solar cells into the wing structure as well as develops a new wing that is significantly lighter to compensate for the weight added by the photovoltaic cells. It was demonstrated that by using this approach, a 33% increase in the flight time can be achieved with only one modified wing in a prototype vehicle.
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author	Octavian Narcis Ionescu Ileana Cernica Elena Manea Catalin Parvulescu Alin Istrate Gabriela Ionescu Mirela Petruta Suchea
author_facet	Octavian Narcis Ionescu Ileana Cernica Elena Manea Catalin Parvulescu Alin Istrate Gabriela Ionescu Mirela Petruta Suchea
author_sort	Octavian Narcis Ionescu
title	Integration of Micro-Structured Photovoltaic Cells into the Ultra-Light Wing Structure for Extended Range Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
title_short	Integration of Micro-Structured Photovoltaic Cells into the Ultra-Light Wing Structure for Extended Range Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
title_full	Integration of Micro-Structured Photovoltaic Cells into the Ultra-Light Wing Structure for Extended Range Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
title_fullStr	Integration of Micro-Structured Photovoltaic Cells into the Ultra-Light Wing Structure for Extended Range Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
title_full_unstemmed	Integration of Micro-Structured Photovoltaic Cells into the Ultra-Light Wing Structure for Extended Range Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
title_sort	integration of micro-structured photovoltaic cells into the ultra-light wing structure for extended range unmanned aerial vehicles
publisher	MDPI AG
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/6c97ff4431524b9fa586feb56ee0b38c
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Integration of Micro-Structured Photovoltaic Cells into the Ultra-Light Wing Structure for Extended Range Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

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