Research Article
Placement Optimization for UAV-Enabled Wireless Power Transfer System
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-030-67720-6_5, author={Zhengqiang Wang and Yang Liu and Hao Zhang and Xiaoyu Wan and Zifu Fan}, title={Placement Optimization for UAV-Enabled Wireless Power Transfer System}, proceedings={Communications and Networking. 15th EAI International Conference, ChinaCom 2020, Shanghai, China, November 20-21, 2020, Proceedings}, proceedings_a={CHINACOM}, year={2021}, month={2}, keywords={Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) Wireless power transfer Placement optimization}, doi={10.1007/978-3-030-67720-6_5} }- Zhengqiang Wang
Yang Liu
Hao Zhang
Xiaoyu Wan
Zifu Fan
Year: 2021
Placement Optimization for UAV-Enabled Wireless Power Transfer System
CHINACOM
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-67720-6_5
Abstract
This paper considers an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless power transfer (WPT) system, in which a UAV hovers in a given flying altitude to transfer energy to more than two energy receivers (ERs) on the ground. We consider to maximize the sum energy and weighted sum energy of ERs by UAV placement optimization. As the sum energy and weighted sum energy maximization problem are sum of ratio problems, which are generally NP-hard. It is difficult to give the optimal location of the UAV for those two problems. To tackle those problems, we adopt a novel quadratic transform technique to transfer to an equivalent problem. Based on the equivalent problem, we propose an iterative coordination update algorithm in a closed-form expression, which can converge to the stationary point of the sum energy maximization problem or even the global optimal solution under a sufficient condition of the flight altitude. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can achieve nearly the same weighted sum energy for ERs and reduces more than 90% complexity compared to the two-dimensional (2D) exhaustive search method.
