Wireless Electricity Transmission Design of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Charging Systems

Unmanned aerial vehicles have been becoming widely used tools along with the developing progresses of robotic, control and energy techniques. As a convenient carrier of payloads and apparatuses for specific missions, the replenishment of battery is significantly important for the using reliability and durability. To overcome the restrictive issue of conventional battery charging dependent on cables, the wireless electricity transmission based on electromagnetic coupling is investigated in this work. The non-contacted charging may enable more powerful facilities of unmanned aerial vehicles, and may further open up new application fields of drone scenarios.

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