TY - JOUR
T1 - Performance analysis of unmanned aerial vehicle enabled wireless power transfer considering radio frequency system imperfections
AU - Lahiry, Archiman
AU - Le, Khoa N.
AU - Bao, Vo Nguyen Quoc
AU - Tam, Vivian W. Y.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2023/3/15
Y1 - 2023/3/15
N2 - A simple and energy-efficient communication system configuration is proposed for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Energy Transmitters (UAV-ETs) for Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) applications. The results show that the proposed UAV-ET's hardware configuration improves WPT time by 9.305 %, and reduces UAV-ET's power consumption by 7.47 % compared to the UAV Base Stations (UAV-BSs). Also, in the prior works on UAVenabled WPT the UAV-ET's communication system configuration was not proposed, and UAV-ET's radio frequency component's real-world imperfections were ignored. Therefore, the work proposes a holistic energy efficiency optimization framework for UAV-ETs and hardware design parameters for qualifying the UAV-ET's hardware components to maximize UAV-ET's WPT time. Additionally, a three-dimensional UAV-ET placement optimization is proposed for maximizing WPT time, and results show that higher UAV-ET heights above the Wireless Energy-Receivers (WERs) decrease the WPT time by 4.75 %. Besides, the results suggest that Antenna Array (AA) losses and the power amplifier's power added efficiency variation reduce UAV-ET's WPT time by 16.48 %. Finally, a 115 g crossed-slotted waveguide AA for UAV-ET is manufactured using laser cutting, and the experiments confirm that the AA's total loss is 0.72 dB, therefore, the AA qualifies requirements according to the proposed UAV-ET's hardware component design optimization framework.
AB - A simple and energy-efficient communication system configuration is proposed for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Energy Transmitters (UAV-ETs) for Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) applications. The results show that the proposed UAV-ET's hardware configuration improves WPT time by 9.305 %, and reduces UAV-ET's power consumption by 7.47 % compared to the UAV Base Stations (UAV-BSs). Also, in the prior works on UAVenabled WPT the UAV-ET's communication system configuration was not proposed, and UAV-ET's radio frequency component's real-world imperfections were ignored. Therefore, the work proposes a holistic energy efficiency optimization framework for UAV-ETs and hardware design parameters for qualifying the UAV-ET's hardware components to maximize UAV-ET's WPT time. Additionally, a three-dimensional UAV-ET placement optimization is proposed for maximizing WPT time, and results show that higher UAV-ET heights above the Wireless Energy-Receivers (WERs) decrease the WPT time by 4.75 %. Besides, the results suggest that Antenna Array (AA) losses and the power amplifier's power added efficiency variation reduce UAV-ET's WPT time by 16.48 %. Finally, a 115 g crossed-slotted waveguide AA for UAV-ET is manufactured using laser cutting, and the experiments confirm that the AA's total loss is 0.72 dB, therefore, the AA qualifies requirements according to the proposed UAV-ET's hardware component design optimization framework.
KW - Energy transmitters
KW - Unmanned aerial vehicle
KW - Power amplifiers
KW - Wireless power transfer
KW - Energy management
KW - Antenna arrays
UR - https://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:69793
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85144864559&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.energy.2022.126464
DO - 10.1016/j.energy.2022.126464
M3 - Article
SN - 0360-5442
VL - 267
JO - Energy
JF - Energy
M1 - 126464
ER -
