Design of Battery Monitor and Protection Subsystem of Power System in MAYAD01 UAV Project

Abstract

Nowadays Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) play a curial role in many fields. It has been used to do urban civil missions such as search and rescue, wildlife, agriculture surveys and weather monitoring as well as military missions such as border surveillance, military training and many other missions. The Institute of Space Research and Aerospace (ISRA), Sudan has established a UAV research project named mayada01.The main task of mayada01 is monitoring wide space agriculture areas via high-resolution cameras capturing visible and infrared images. Mayada01 composes of six systems. The power system is one of them, and it is responsible for providing and managing the distribution of electrical power to other systems besides monitoring the battery level and protecting the other systems from over current. This paper presents the hardware and software design of battery monitor and protection subsystem of power system in mayada01.