This paper introduces a hardware platform for automated battery changing and charging for multiple UAV agents. The automated station holds a buffer of 8 batteries in a novel dual-drum structure that enables a “hot” battery swap, thus allowing the vehicle to remain powered on throughout the battery changing process. Each drum consists of four battery bays, each of which is connected to a smartch...

Battery is the most widely used energy storage device. Since its invention, it has become a common power source for various household, commercial and industrial applications. Despite its ever increasing importance, many challenges remain unsolved to characterize and manage the battery. Among them, one fundamental issue is the estimation of state of charge (SoC), and Sate of health (SOH) of batt...

Recent surge in the number of Electric Vehicles have created a need to develop inexpensive energy-dense Battery Storage Systems. Many countries across planet put place concrete measures reduce and subsequently limit vehicles powered by fossil fuels. Lithium-ion based batteries are presently dominating electric automotive sector. Energy research efforts also focussed on accurate computation Stat...

In order to solve the problems of long-time consumption and high energy in existing capacity detection methods retired Ni-MH batteries, a fast reliable prediction method for batteries by multi-parameter driven analysis was proposed this paper. This mainly obtains several parameters through short-time measurement pulse rapid nondestructive testing. Then, Pearson correlation coefficient KS-test w...

Phase transitions in Li-ion electrode materials during (dis)charge are decisive for battery performance, limiting high-rate capabilities and playing a crucial role in the cycle life of Li-ion batteries. However, the difficulty to probe the phase nucleation and growth in individual grains is hindering fundamental understanding and progress. Here we use synchrotron microbeam diffraction to disclo...

The rising cost of fossil fuels, together with a push for more eco-friendly methods of transportation, has increased interest in and demand for electrically powered or assisted vehicles. The majority of these electric or hybrid electric vehicles will be, for the foreseeable future, powered by batteries. One of the major problems with batteries is their aging. For batteries, aging means that the...

A vacuum photodiode is constructed in the form of a parallel plate capacitor with plate separation d. A battery maintains constant potential V between the plates. A short laser pulse illuminates that cathode at time t = 0 with energy sufficient to liberate all of the surface charge density. This charge moves across the capacitor gap as a sheet until it is collected at the anode at time T . Then...

Adoption of battery energy storage systems for behind-the-meters application offers valuable benefits for demand charge management as well as increasing PV-utilization. The key point is that while the benefit/cost ratio for a single application may not be favorable for economic benefits of storage systems, stacked services can provide multiple revenue streams for the same investment. Under this...

The dielectric properties and ionic conductivity of novel "ceramic state" polymer electrolytes for high capacity lithium battery are characterized by Radio frequency and Microwave methods in two broad frequency ranges from 50 Hz to 20 KHz and 4 GHz to 40 GHz. This innovative solid polymer electrolyte which is highly ionic conductive (10 S/cm at room temperature) from -40C to +150C can be used i...