Thesis Chapters by Filipe A Baruzzi
This work carries out the conceptual design of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) with photovoltaic... more This work carries out the conceptual design of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) with photovoltaic cells on its wings to generate their own power and have the ability to stay in flight continuously. It is shipped with camera developed for UAVs, so that its main application is to capture pictures on the varied applications missions. The conceptual design was performed using criteria of efficiency and low cost in order to get an aircraft long endurance, with the ability to monitor territories of any size in Brazil. The work uses a methodology of the technical literature with some proposed adjustment, and its result is a self-sufficient energy aircraft, with 3.44 meters of wingspan, solar panels on the wing totaling 120 W of power, and total mass estimated in 2.536 kg. Among the parameters evaluated for the preliminary design of the aircraft is the total mass, energy consumption of the load, the avionics system, the maximum altitude operation, the global irradiance, flight location and time of the year, the aerodynamic coefficients for finite wing, the energy density of batteries, photovoltaic cells, the Maximum Power Point Tracker and the propulsion system. The result is a preliminary design of a relatively light solar UAV with high flight range.
Papers by Filipe A Baruzzi
This work carries out the conceptual design of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) with photovoltaic... more This work carries out the conceptual design of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) with photovoltaic cells on its wings to generate their own power and have the ability to stay in flight continuously. It is shipped with camera developed for UAVs, so that its main application is to capture pictures on the varied applications missions. The conceptual design was performed using criteria of efficiency and low cost in order to get an aircraft long endurance, with the ability to monitor territories of any size in Brazil. The work uses a methodology of the technical literature with some proposed adjustment, and its result is a self-sufficient energy aircraft, with 3.44 meters of wingspan, solar panels on the wing totaling 120 W of power, and total mass estimated in 2.536 kg. Among the parameters evaluated for the preliminary design of the aircraft is the total mass, energy consumption of the load, the avionics system, the maximum altitude operation, the global irradiance, flight location and time of the year, the aerodynamic coefficients for finite wing, the energy density of batteries, photovoltaic cells, the Maximum Power Point Tracker and the propulsion system. The result is a preliminary design of a relatively light solar UAV with high flight range.
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Thesis Chapters by Filipe A Baruzzi
Papers by Filipe A Baruzzi