Tethered Unmanned Aerial Vehicles—A Systematic Review

MN Marques, SA Magalhães, FN Dos Santos… - Robotics, 2023 - mdpi.com
In recent years, there has been a remarkable surge in the development and research of
tethered aerial systems, thus reflecting a growing interest in their diverse applications. Long …

Using drones to transport suspected COVID-19 samples; experiences from the second largest testing centre in Ghana, West Africa

AA Sylverken, M Owusu, B Agbavor, A Kwarteng… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Background The declaration of COVID-19 as a pandemic on March 11 2020, by the World
Health Organisation prompted the need for a sustained and a rapid international response …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental investigation of the electrification of wind turbine blades in fair-weather and artificial charge-compensation to mitigate the effects

P Fontanes, J Montanyà, M Arcanjo… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Wind turbines are tall structures immersed in the electrified Earth's atmosphere. Even in fair-
weather, a modern wind turbine can be subjected to several tens of kilovolts of atmospheric …

On the induced currents to wind turbines by the Earth's atmospheric electric potential: Experiments with drones

P Fontanes, J Montanya, M Arcanjo, M Urbani… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We live in an electrified atmosphere where a potential difference of about 250 kV is
established between the ground and the ionosphere. The resulting potential gradient …

Sustainability of wind turbine blade: instantaneous real-time prediction of its failure using machine learning and solution based on materials and design

L Malik, GS Saini, M Malik… - Handbook of Sustainable …, 2023 - taylorfrancis.com
The structures of wind turbine blades (WTBs) are very susceptible to damage from various
sources controlled by the geometry, strength of composite material, strength of adhesive …

Small-scale experimental simulation of lightning using vertical wires deployed by drones in the atmosphere: on the land and sea lightning peak current asymmetry

J Montanyà, P Fontanes, M Arcanjo, M Urbani… - Electric Power Systems …, 2024 - Elsevier
Several works have shown a land/ocean asymmetry in the intensity of lightning. Intense
lightning flashes are found to occur over the ocean. One of the factors determining this …

Experiments lifting vertical wires with drones to study wind turbines current induction and charging

P Fontanes, J Montanyà, M Arcanjo… - 2021 35th International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A series of experiments lifting vertical wires with drones under fair weather conditions have
been performed in order to study induced currents on tall structures such as wind turbines …

[PDF][PDF] Lightning tests of unmanned aircrafts with impulse generator

T Kossowski, K Filik - Prz. Elektrotechniczny, 2020 - pe.org.pl
This article presents the results of experimental research on the susceptibility of multi-rotor
aircrafts to atmospheric discharges. The study was carried out in the Laboratory of Lightning …

The Analysis of Power Supply Topologies for Tethered Drone Applications

W Walendziuk, P Falkowski, K Kulikowski - Proceedings, 2020 - mdpi.com
This article presents three technical variants of a power supply system of a tethered
multirotor drone. The proposed solutions can be applied as power sources for multirotor …

Modelling of tethered UAV system for coconut/ice apple harvesting–A review

P Sivakumar, K Ramesh, S Manimaran - AIP Conference Proceedings, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
A Review has been done in order to develop a prototype of a tethered First-Person View
(FPV) drone system for the harvesting of coconuts. The goal of this is to overcome the …