Energía solar en drones

Abstract

Abstract: This degree project is mainly focused on finding an alternative which allows increasing the flight autonomy of a drone, using additional energies such as solar. The crucial problem is its high-powerconsumption compared to its limited energy storage capacity, which leads to endurance that can rarely exceed half an hour. Increasing the size of the battery or incorporating more batteries increases the weight of the equipment, affecting the flight time so it is inversely proportional, the use of solar panels is proposed and based on an energy analysis under different conditions it will be tried to see if there is an improvement or not in the flight time, and if it improves, how much it improves. In addition, the battery will be modeled using the MATLAB-Simulinksoftware, and better understand the discharge process, so that for this project, different simulations will be carried out where parameters such as: SOC, voltage, intensity of charge and discharge with respect to the time.