Systems and methods to optimize power consumption and trip time of electrically powered aerial vehicles that are required to continuously perform trips that require more electrical power than what is supplied by an onboard energy storage device. The systems include aerial vehicles equipped with photo-voltaic (PV) panels, removable energy storage devices, light sensors, power meters, global positioning satellite (GPS) modules, programmable central processing unit (PCPU) devices, telemetry equipment, artificial intelligent (AI) object recognition software and cameras, etc. The methods include a method to maximize the amount sunlight contacting the PV panels, a method to give and receive an energy storage device between two aerial vehicles using AI object recognition, while both vehicles are airborne, and a method to optimize the location for the giving and receiving of energy storage devices.


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    Title :

    Systems and methods to optimize consumption and trip time of electrically powered aerial vehicles.


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    Publication date :

    2025-06-26


    Type of media :

    Patent


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English


    Classification :

    IPC:    B64U / H02S GENERATION OF ELECTRIC POWER BY CONVERSION OF INFRA-RED RADIATION, VISIBLE LIGHT OR ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT, E.G. USING PHOTOVOLTAIC [PV] MODULES , Erzeugung elektrischer Energie durch Umwandlung von Infrarot-Strahlung, sichtbarem Licht oder ultraviolettem Licht, z.B. unter Verwendung von Photovoltaik [PV]-Modulen / B60L PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES , Antrieb von elektrisch angetriebenen Fahrzeugen



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