Tethered Flying Robot

Sogo Keishi, Ishii Tohru, Takahashi Yasutake, Maeda Yoichiro, Nagata Sota, Nakamura Takayuki

doi:10.14864/fss.27.0.229.0

Wind power generation is one of natural energy has been paid attention as an ecological technology. Wind power generation systems that use the jet stream blowing at high altitude has been proposed. However, the conventional wind power plant at high altitude needs a large amount of cost for building, moving, and repairing. In order to compensate these weak points, it is necessary to develop a high-altitude small wind power generation system which costs of construction, repairing, replacing are low. This paper proposes a small tethered flying robot consisting of a paraglider, servomotor, attitude sensors, a controller, and two tethers. The paraglider does not have any flame or metal panel the tethered flying robot is compactible and portable because of a soft material and lightweight. Moreover, the control device is not complicated and easy to repair because only two control lines are necessary to control posture of the robot. This research project aims to build a tethered flying robot mooring autonomously at high altitude that realizes wind power generation, multimodal sensor information monitoring, and wireless communication infrastructure. In this paper, development of the small tethered flying robot and an autonomous mooring control system is reported.

Tethered Flying Robot

Bibliographic Information

Abstract

Journal

Keywords

Details 詳細情報について

Export

Report a problem