Wireless power transfer for unmanned underwater vehicles: Technologies, challenges and applications
dc.contributor.author | Martínez de Alegría Mancisidor, Iñigo ![]() | |
dc.contributor.author | Rozas Holgado, Iñigo | |
dc.contributor.author | Ibarra Basabe, Edorta ![]() | |
dc.contributor.author | Robles Sestafe, Eider ![]() | |
dc.contributor.author | Martín González, José Luis ![]() | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-05-29T13:21:34Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-05-29T13:21:34Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2024-05-10 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Energies 17(10) : (2024) // Article ID 2305 | es_ES |
dc.identifier.issn | 1996-1073 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10810/68267 | |
dc.description.abstract | Unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) are key technologies to conduct preventive inspection and maintenance tasks in offshore renewable energy plants. Making such vehicles autonomous would lead to benefits such as improved availability, cost reduction and carbon emission minimization. However, some technological aspects, including the powering of these devices, remain with a long way to go. In this context, underwater wireless power transfer (UWPT) solutions have potential to overcome UUV powering drawbacks. Considering the relevance of this topic for offshore renewable plants, this work aims to provide a comprehensive summary of the state of the art regarding UPWT technologies. A technology intelligence study is conducted by means of a bibliographical survey. Regarding underwater wireless power transfer, the main methods are reviewed, and it is concluded that inductive wireless power transfer (IWPT) technologies have the most potential. These inductive systems are described, and their challenges in underwater environments are presented. A review of the underwater IWPT experiments and applications is conducted, and innovative solutions are listed. Achieving efficient and reliable UWPT technologies is not trivial, but significant progress is identified. Generally, the latest solutions exhibit efficiencies between 88% and 93% in laboratory settings, with power ratings reaching up to 1–3 kW. Based on the assessment, a power transfer within the range of 1 kW appears to be feasible and may be sufficient to operate small UUVs. However, work-class UUVs require at least a tenfold power increase. Thus, although UPWT has advanced significantly, further research is required to industrially establish these technologies. | es_ES |
dc.description.sponsorship | This work was supported in part by the Government of the Basque Country within the fund for research groups of the Basque University system IT1440-22 and by the CIN/AEI/10.13039/ 501100011033 within the project PID2020-115126RB-I00. This work was supported in part by “Programa Investigo” within the European Union funding framework of Plan de Recuperación, Transformación y Resilencia—NextGenerationEU. | es_ES |
dc.language.iso | eng | es_ES |
dc.publisher | MDPI | es_ES |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MICINN/PID2020-115126RB-I00 | |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | es_ES |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/es/ | |
dc.subject | autonomous underwater vehicles | es_ES |
dc.subject | inductive wireless power transfer | es_ES |
dc.subject | underwater docking stations | es_ES |
dc.subject | underwater wireless power transfer | es_ES |
dc.subject | unmanned underwater vehicles | es_ES |
dc.title | Wireless power transfer for unmanned underwater vehicles: Technologies, challenges and applications | es_ES |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | es_ES |
dc.date.updated | 2024-05-24T13:04:59Z | |
dc.rights.holder | © 2024 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/). | es_ES |
dc.relation.publisherversion | https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/17/10/2305 | es_ES |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3390/en17102305 | |
dc.departamentoes | Tecnología electrónica | |
dc.departamentoeu | Teknologia elektronikoa |
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