Wireless Power LabThis video showcases our demo of a drone without a battery powered from a 13.56 MHz inductive power transmitter while it hovers over the pad.
This demo was first featured in the GaN Systems stand at APEC 2017 in Tampa FL. After that, it was shown at the 2017 PCIM Europe conference in Nuremberg, the Centre for Power Electronics UK Annual Conference 2017 and 2018 in Loughborough, and in IEEE Wireless Power Week 2018 in Montreal, where it won first prize in the hardware demo competition.
Our IEEE papers with the details of the design can be found here:
Wireless Power to a Batteryless DroneWireless Power Lab2019-10-29 | This video showcases our demo of a drone without a battery powered from a 13.56 MHz inductive power transmitter while it hovers over the pad.
This demo was first featured in the GaN Systems stand at APEC 2017 in Tampa FL. After that, it was shown at the 2017 PCIM Europe conference in Nuremberg, the Centre for Power Electronics UK Annual Conference 2017 and 2018 in Loughborough, and in IEEE Wireless Power Week 2018 in Montreal, where it won first prize in the hardware demo competition.
Our IEEE papers with the details of the design can be found here:
ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7928799Load Characterisation from Switching Waveforms: IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics media fileWireless Power Lab2021-04-26 | This video features the media file published with our paper titled: "Load Characterisation in High Frequency IPT Systems Using Class EF Switching Waveforms ", and authored by: Juan M. Arteaga, Nunzio Pucci, Lingxin Lan and Paul D. Mitcheson. An open access version of the paper can be found in IEEExplore: ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9410382The wirelessly powered drone demo: IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics media fileWireless Power Lab2021-03-22 | This video features the media file published with our paper titled: "Dynamic Capabilities of Multi-MHz Inductive Power Transfer Systems Demonstrated With Batteryless Drones", and authored by: Juan M. Arteaga, Samer Aldhaher, George Kkelis, Christopher H. Kwan, David C. Yates and Paul D. Mitcheson. An open access version of the paper can be found in IEEExplore: ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8469090
This paper won a IEEE TPEL Second Prize Paper Award in 2019!Wireless Charging of a Matrice100 droneWireless Power Lab2019-10-13 | This video features our 100 W wireless charging demo of a full-size drone on a Thales unmanned surface vessel.
The technical challenges are described in our 2020 EUCAP paper: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9135731Wireless charging of an Electric ScooterWireless Power Lab2019-10-13 | This video shows our 6.78 MHz 100 W wireless power to an electric moped experiment. Technical details are disclosed in our 2019 IEEE WoW paper:
ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9030648Two batteryless drones powered from a single charging padWireless Power Lab2019-10-13 | This video showcases an experiment where we power two drones without a battery from a single one-turn coil 13.56 MHz transmitter.
The system design is described in our open access IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics paper: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/846909013.56 MHz IPT from a Matrice100 droneWireless Power Lab2019-10-13 | In this video we showcase a 13.56MHz IPT transmitter mounted on a Matrice100 drone wirelessly powering an LED representing a sensor.
The design of this system is disclosed in our open access IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics paper: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8469090 and our 2017 IEEE sensors paper: ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8234092Wireless power to an electric mopedWireless Power Lab2019-10-13 | This video shows our 6.78 MHz 600 W wireless power to an electric moped experiment. Technical details are disclosed in our 2020 IEEE WoW paper: