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Tethered Power for a Series of Quadcopters: Analysis and Applications
Karan P. Jain, Prasanth Kotaru, Massimiliano de Sa +2
Tethered quadcopters are used for extended flight operations where the power to the system is provided via a tether connected to an external power source. In this work, we consider…
Staging energy sources to extend flight time of a multirotor UAV
Karan P. Jain, Jerry Tang, Koushil Sreenath +1
Energy sources such as batteries do not decrease in mass after consumption, unlike combustion-based fuels. We present the concept of staging energy sources, i.e. consuming energy i…
Flying batteries: In-flight battery switching to increase multirotor flight time
Karan P. Jain, Mark W. Mueller
We present a novel approach to increase the flight time of a multirotor via mid-air docking and in-flight battery switching. A main quadcopter flying using a primary battery has a…