DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10838305
title: Power Balance Characteristics for Multirotor- and Fixed-Wing-Type UAV-BSs Equipped with RES and RISs

description: Overview

The following dataset presents the power balance characteristics for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Base Stations (UAV-BSs) equipped with Renewable Energy Sources (RES) and Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs). The dataset has been prepared for two different types of UAVs, i.e., multirotor and fixed-wing ones.

Scenario

The considered scenario includes 2 UAV-BSs (each of a different type) equipped with a single RF transceiver and an RIS device and RES — a single photovoltaic panel (PV) and a single wind turbine (WT). The UAV-BSs are placed within the city of Poznan and hover (multirotor) or follow a circular route (fixed-wing) above a single mobile user with fixed traffic demand (100 Mbps downlink — DL, and 50 Mbps uplink — UL). The simulation runs have been performed for 4 dates (vernal equinox, summer solstice, autumn equinox, winter solstice), each one from a different season of the year. The aim of such an approach was to highlight the impact of the time of the day and the year on the energy gain obtained thanks to enabling RES generators as well as on the power consumption of the hardware of each UAV-BS type. The weather conditions assumed within the simulation are typical for the climate in Poland.

Methodology

The power-balance calculations (UAV-BSs' power consumption, renewable energy production) have been based on the mathematical formulas from the scientific literature and performed within the digital simulation runs by using dedicated software developed in Python programming language.

Simulation setup

The setup of the input parameters for used mathematical models (power consumption, energy generation) has been done in accordance with the values attached within the literature positions (cited within the publication included in the Related works section of the following dataset) and adjusted to the considered study. Furthermore, the data used to predict weather conditions are the real data (for the year 2022) collected by the weather stations placed in Poznan. A single simulation run has been performed (which takes into account 2 types of UAV-BS simultaneously and estimates their power balance for 4 seasons of the year), where the time step has been set to 1 hour of the day.

Results

The results of the aforementioned investigations have been included in the attached files (_power_balance_multirotor.csv & _power_balance_fixed_wing.csv). The first column denotes the hour of a particular day. Next, 4 multicolumns have been presented for the following variants — No RES enabled, only PV enabled, only WT enabled, and both types of RES generators enabled. In addition, each multicolumn consists of 4 columns, each of which represents a UAV-BS's hardware power balance (in W) for a different date (season of the year).

Acknowledgment

More details about the conducted study have been described within the attached paper (Related works section). The work (including the following dataset preparation) was realized within project no. 2021/43/B/ST7/01365 funded by the National Science Center in Poland.