International Journal of Research and Innovation in Applied Science (IJRIAS) | Volume VII, Issue V, May 2022 | ISSN 2454–6194
Development of Energy Efficient For UAV
Constance Nneka Eze1, Beatrice Ifeoma Ugwuoke2, Chikeani N.I3
1Department of Computer Engineering, Enugu State Polytechnic Iwollo Ezeagu.
2Department of Computer Engineering, Enugu State Polytechnic Iwollo Ezeagu.
3Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Enugu State Polytechnic Iwollo Ezeagu
Abstract: The development of energy efficiency in unmanned aerial vehicle operations was proposed in this work. Tremendous and remarkable achievements have been recorded in the area of unmanned aerial vehicle operations with regards to energy efficiency. The principal aim of energy efficiency while maintaining accurate collision avoidance. Characterization of the energy consumption of a conventional unmanned aerial vehicle was first carried out, then, A successful characterization was followed by development of a Simulink model of the conventional unmanned aerial vehicle with the characterized parametric values as input for simulation. With a reliable simulation result, then a model on energy efficiency was developed. This model was simulated in order to validate and justify the work. Velocity and energy-time graphs were plotted to show the relationships of velocity and time of unmanned aerial vehicle flight as well as energy expended and time. Computations from the plotted graphs show an energy efficiency of 8.3% over a conventional operation of unmanned aerial vehicle without the application of the technique in this research. This is the percentage of improvement. It is a justification and validation of this research on the use of energy efficiency in unmanned aerial vehicle operations. It has been established that energy consumption in unmanned aerial vehicle operations is influenced by its mode of operation at a given time. There is an obvious reduced running cost with energy efficiency.
Keywords: Energy Efficiency, unmanned aerial vehicle, Unmanned Aircraft System, Modified Tentacles Algorithm.
I.INTRODUCTION
An unmanned aerial vehicle or remotely controlled aerial vehicle, is an aircraft which operates without a human pilot on board. It is essentially an unscrewed aircraft. Form part of a family known as unmanned aircraft system made up of unmanned aerial vehicle, a ground base controller and a system of communications between the two. Unmanned aerial vehicles maintain certain degrees of autonomy during flight, maintained by either remote control by human operators or onboard control computers. Unmanned aerial vehicles are generally known as drones and guided autonomously, by remote control, and carry sensors, target designators, offensive ordinance or electronic transmitters designed to interfere with or destroy enemy targets when used in military operations (Guilmartin, 2019). Due to the increase in the number of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles for technical and other applications, there has been increased interest in the study of embedded sensor and communication devices. Every day, available civil, commercial and even military applications of unmanned aerial vehicles motivated this growing interest. , there is the need to improve on the energy