Anicho, Ogbonnaya and Charlesworth, Philip B and Baicher, Gurvinder S and Nagar, Atulya K. (2019) Autonomous Unmanned Solar Powered HAPS: Impact of Latitudes and Seasons on Power and Communications Coverage. In: 2018 IEEE International Conference on Communication, Networks and Satellite (Comnetsat), 15-17 Nov. 2018, Medan, Indonesia, Indonesia.
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This paper examines the potential for autonomous
fixed-wing unmanned solar-powered High Altitude Platform
Station or Pseudo-Satellite (HAPS) to provide persistent communications coverage. As a solar dependent platform, the potential for harnessing green energy and long platform endurance makes it an attractive communications coverage option. However, the variation of latitude and season across the globe presents an implementation constraint and challenges power availability and coverage capability. This paper investigates how the services
of a typical solar-powered HAPS are affected by latitude and season. It shows that the degree of insolation directly affects the unmanned aircraft’s altitude, hence, its footprint diameter and power available to the communications payload. The paper highlights effective energy management algorithms as key to successful implementation of solar-powered unmanned HAPS
especially at challenging latitudes and seasons.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Additional Information and Comments: | The final version is available online at https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8684145 Full conference proceedings have been published by IEEE under ISBN 9781538667170 and are available online at https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/8681388/proceeding |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Human and Digital Sciences > Mathematics and Computer Science |
| Depositing User: | Ogbonnaya Anicho |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Jul 2019 13:41 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Jul 2019 13:41 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/2884 |
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