Ein neuer Drohnen-Prototyp kann auf Stromleitungen landen, um seine Batterie aufzuladen. Diese Technologie könnte künftigen Drohnen eine praktisch unbegrenzte Missionsdauer ermöglichen, ohne dass eine menschliche Interaktion erforderlich ist.

Submission Statement

Autonomous drones have many applications in the civilian domain, especially for inspection and maintenance tasks in remote and hard to reach areas. However, true autonomy is hard to achieve when your drone needs a human or expensive infrastructure to swap or charge its battery after each flight. A potential solution is presented here in which a drone is capable of autonomously landing on any AC powerline and recharge itself inductively. Once the battery is fully charged, the drone autonomously takes off from the powerline again to continue its mission.

Some sort of automatic power metering is probably needed to avoid upsetting power transmission companies unless of course they are the customers or operators themselves.

Drones on unlimited missions with limited to none human oversight.

… what could possibly go wrong?

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