{"id":466,"date":"2023-04-30T11:43:06","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T15:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/relacs\/?p=466"},"modified":"2023-09-22T12:07:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T16:07:52","slug":"drone-wireless-charger-field-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/relacs\/drone-wireless-charger-field-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Drone Wireless Charger Field Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/relacs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2023\/09\/IMG_5315-edited-2-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-419\" style=\"width:531px;height:332px\" width=\"531\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/relacs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2023\/09\/IMG_5315-edited-2-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/relacs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2023\/09\/IMG_5315-edited-2-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/relacs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2023\/09\/IMG_5315-edited-2-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/relacs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2023\/09\/IMG_5315-edited-2-1536x960.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/relacs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2023\/09\/IMG_5315-edited-2-2048x1280.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/relacs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2023\/09\/IMG_5315-edited-2-480x300.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>RELACs partnered up with AERPAW to run the first field demonstration of the 800 W Autonomous Wireless UAV Charging Pad.&nbsp; Dr. Pantic, Ujjwal, Muhammad, and Stephen drove out to the NC State farms where there was ample space for flight.&nbsp; Dr. Sichitiu and his undergraduate student, Byron Qi, were in charge of piloting the quadcopter.&nbsp; The UAV was flown with one battery instead of two, so the charger was tested at half power (400 W), ramping up to a constant-current value of 14 A.&nbsp; The autonomous charging process was successful, taking only 15 minutes to recharge the battery, and the drone took off for its next mission!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The field demonstration video is posted here: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/dh156lwS9G0\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/dh156lwS9G0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RELACs partnered up with AERPAW to run the first field demonstration of the 800 W Autonomous Wireless UAV Charging Pad.&nbsp; Dr. Pantic, Ujjwal, Muhammad, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/relacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/relacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/relacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/relacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/relacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/relacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481,"href":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/relacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions\/481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/relacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/relacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/relacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}