Design and Implementation of a Tether-Powered Hexacopter for Long Endurance Missions
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Abstract
A tether-powered unmanned aerial vehicle is presented in this article to demonstrate the highest altitude and the longest flight time among surveyed literature. The grid-powered ground station transmits high voltage electrical energy through a well-managed conductive tether to a 2-kg hexacopter hovering in the air. Designs, implementations, and theoretical models are discussed in this research work. Experimental results show that the proposed system can operate over 50 m for 4 h continuously. Compared with battery-powered multicopters, tether-powered ones have great advantages on specific-area long-endurance applications, such as precision agriculture, intelligent surveillance, and vehicle-deployed cellular sites.
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OpenAlex topics: UAV Applications and Optimization · Robotic Path Planning Algorithms · Aerospace Engineering and Energy Systems
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Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, No. 1001, University Road, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan
Funding
Ministry of Science and Technology
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