Developing a modular tool to simulate regeneration power potential using orographic wind-hovering UAVs

Applications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV's) are often limited by flight endurance. To address the limitation of endurance, we propose a regenerative soaring method in this paper. The atmospheric energy from updrafts generated by obstacles such as hills and ships can be harvested by UAV's using a regenerative electric drivetrain. With fixed...