UAV-Enabled Wireless Power Transfer: Trajectory Design and Energy Optimization

• Published in: IEEE transactions on wireless communications Vol. 17; no. 8; pp. 5092 - 5106
• Main Authors: Xu, Jie, Zeng, Yong, Zhang, Rui
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.08.2018; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Allocations; Charging; Conferences; Design optimization; Energy; energy fairness; Erbium; Hovering; Maximization; Optimization techniques; Trajectory optimization; unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV); Unmanned aerial vehicles; Wireless communication; Wireless power transfer (WPT); Wireless power transmission

This paper studies a new unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless power transfer system, where a UAV-mounted mobile energy transmitter is dispatched to deliver wireless energy to a set of energy receivers (ERs) at known locations on the ground. We investigate how the UAV should optimally explo...