Breaking the Battery Barrier: Laser Power Beaming for Extended sUAS Operations
Optically power beaming projects have potential for many applications in the defense market. A unique opportunity to apply this technology is to extend the flight-time of a sUAS. This application creates a proof-of-concept design to extend a drone's flight-time using a high-power laser.
Authors
- Kirk A. Ingold
- William North (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7852-948X)
- T. L. Peterson
- Nicholas Clendenen
- James Rakovalis
- John Sparhawk
- Arupong Kongsakul
Institutions
- United States Military Academy (US)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2025-08-13
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1109/rapid64712.2025.11151512
- Primary Topic
- Engineering and Test Systems
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00