Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY
Volume 69, Issue 11, Pages 12883-12896Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2020.3015246
Keywords
Sensors; Unmanned aerial vehicles; Power demand; Two dimensional displays; Topology; Wireless sensor networks; Wireless communication; Energy efficiency; energy harvesting; radio frequency; sensor; unmanned aerial vehicle; wireless power transfer
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61873119, 61911530247]
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Wireless power transfer (WPT) is a promising charging technology for battery-limited sensors. In this paper, we study the use of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as a charger for WPT. Unlike the previous works, our study takes into account the power consumption of the UAV (power consumption during hovering and flight), the charging process from a base station (BS) to the UAV and the conversion loss of the energy harvester. Both one-dimensional (1D) and two-dimensional (2D) WPT systems are considered. The sum-energy received by all sensors is maximized to find the optimal strategy for UAV deployment. Two different charging schemes are proposed. Numerical results show that the sum-energy received by all sensors is determined by sensors topology, the flight speed of the UAV and the transmit power. They also show that, when the BS charging process and the UAV power consumption are considered in the optimization, the optimal location of the UAV in the 1D and 2D WPT systems is closer to the BS than in the previous works that ignore these two practical factors.
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