ALTERNATIVE ENERGY BASED SYSTEMS FOR ADVANCED UAV: THE 'SAVE' PROJECT

摘要

SAvE (Systems for UAV Alternative Energy) is a research project funded by Piemonte Regional Government and assigned to Politecnico di Torino in sharing with Alenia Aeronautica. Aim of the project is the study of new, more efficient, more effective and more environment-friendly on board systems for advanced Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV).MALE (Medium Altitude Long Endurance) and HALE (High Altitude Long Endurance) UA Vs are particularly critical from the energy consumption point of view, because of their need of flying continuously, for many hours, or days too, at high altitude. So new efficient solutions have be elaborated for Propulsive Power and for Secondary Power Systems.To reach the Project global goal, SAvE activities will be focused on the verification of the feasibility of innovative Power Systems, able to be installed in a reference HALE UA V and to allow correct running of proper components.