WIRELESS METHOD FOR CONTROL UNPLUG OF DEVICES ON BOARD UAVS WITH LIMITED ENERGY RESOURCES

Abstract

The study is devoted to the problem of saving limited energy resources of unmanned vehicles
(UAVs). Regardless of the size and weight of the UAV, its electronic-optical system consumes from 7 to 20 % of the battery's charge. Author proposes the method for the UAV clusters formation with wireless unplug of non-priority devices from the power supply on board the slave drones. The algorithm for alternately con- necting to the power supply of similar devices on board various UAVs of one cluster has developed. To non- priority devices can be attributed digital cameras, meteorological sensors, etc., embedded to drones that fly
from each other at a distance commensurate with the GPS coordinates’ error. In this case it is enough if the monitoring functions will only perform devices on the Master drone of cluster. Devices assigned to non- priority ones are unplugged by a signal via the Bluetooth module. After the task is completed by the Master