Wireless charging technologies have attracted much attention from both academia and industry due to their great potential of freeing devices from wires and batteries, becoming one of the key research areas in recent years. Many platforms have been designed based on different charging technologies for a wide range of scenarios, including structural monitoring, habitat monitoring, wearable devices, volcano monitoring, and so on. However, these existing platforms cannot be deployed quickly and flexibly in many harsh environments, resulting in high deployment cost. In this article, we propose Q-Charge, a wireless charging platform integrated with a quadcopter, which is able to provide desirable energy for large-scale sensing applications. Q-Charge is composed of three components: an energy transfer module, a programmable quadcopter unit, and a cloud server. A wireless charger is installed on a quadcopter to achieve remote energy delivery, and a sink node retrieves data packets from sensors and forwards them to the cloud via a service gateway. Our platform has been successfully implemented for building structure and farmland monitoring, which demonstrates Q-Charge to be effective and efficient.

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Q-Charge：适用于大规模传感应用的基于四轴飞行器的无线充电平台


无线充电技术因其将设备从电线和电池中解放出来的巨大潜力而​​备受学术界和工业界的关注，成为近年来的重点研究领域之一。许多平台基于不同的充电技术设计，适用于各种场景，包括结构监测、栖息地监测、可穿戴设备、火山监测等。然而，这些现有平台在许多恶劣环境下无法快速灵活部署，导致部署成本较高。在本文中，我们提出了 Q-Charge，一种与四轴飞行器集成的无线充电平台，能够为大规模传感应用提供所需的能量。 Q-Charge 由三个组件组成：能量传输模块、可编程四轴飞行器单元和云服务器。四轴飞行器上安装无线充电器以实现远程能量传输，汇聚节点从传感器检索数据包并通过服务网关将其转发到云端。我们的平台已成功应用于建筑结构和农田监测，这证明了 Q-Charge 的有效性和高效性。