Optimal dynamic recharge scheduling for two stage wireless power transfer
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Author(s)
Pandiyan, Akshayaa
Boyle, David
Kiziroglou, Michail
Wright, Steven
Yeatman, Eric
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Many Industrial Internet of Things applications require autonomous operation and incorporate devices in inaccessible locations. Recent advances in wireless power transfer (WPT) and autonomous vehicle technologies, in combination, have the potential to solve a number of residual problems concerning the maintenance of, and data collection from embedded devices. Equipping inexpensive unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and embedded devices with subsystems to facilitate WPT allows a UAV to become a viable mobile power delivery vehicle (PDV) and data collection agent. A key challenge is therefore to ensure that a PDV can optimally schedule power delivery across the network, such that it is as reliable and resource efficient as possible. To achieve this and out-perform naive on-demand recharging strategies, we propose a two-stage wireless power network (WPN) approach in which a large network of devices may be grouped into small clusters, where packets of energy inductively delivered to each cluster by the PDV are acoustically distributed to devices within the cluster. We describe a novel dynamic recharge scheduling algorithm that combines genetic weighted clustering with nearest neighbour search to jointly minimize PDV travel distance and WPT losses. The efficacy and performance of the algorithm are evaluated in simulation using experimentally derived traces, and the algorithm is shown to achieve 90% throughput for large, dense networks.
Date Issued
2020-11-03
Date Acceptance
2020-10-22
Citation
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2020, 17 (8), pp.5719-5729
ISSN
1551-3203
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Start Page
5719
End Page
5729
Journal / Book Title
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
Volume
17
Issue
8
Copyright Statement
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Sponsor
Commission of the European Communities
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
Identifier
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9247485
Grant Number
722496
NE/T011467/1
Subjects
08 Information and Computing Sciences
09 Engineering
10 Technology
Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2020-11-03