Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) lifelong flight is essential to accomplish various tasks, e.g., aerial patrol, aerial rescue, etc. However, traditional UAVs have limited power to sustain their flight and need skilled operators manually control their charging process. Manufacturers and users are eagerly seeking a reliable autonomous battery-changing solution. To address this need, we propose and design an autonomous battery-changing system for UAVs using the theory of inventive problem solving (TRIZ) and user-centered design (UCD) methods. For practical application, we employ UCD to thoroughly analyze user requirements, identify multiple pairs of technical contradictions, and solve these inconsistencies using TRIZ theory. Furthermore, we design an autonomous battery-changing hardware system that meets user requirements and realizes the battery change process after the automatic landing of UAVs. Finally, we conduct experiments to validate our system’s effectiveness. The experimental results show that our battery-changing system can implement the autonomous battery-changing task, and our system has high efficiency and robustness in the real environment.


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    Title :

    Autonomous battery-changing system for UAV’s lifelong flight


    Contributors:
    Jiyang Chen (author) / Wenxi Li (author) / Yingting Sha (author) / Yinchuan Wang (author) / Zhenqiang Zhang (author) / Shikuan Li (author) / Chaoqun Wang (author) / Sile Ma (author)


    Publication date :

    2023




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    Unknown




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