Investigation of Flight Dynamics and Controls for a Solar-Tracker-Mounted UAV

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been widely used to carry cameras, sensors or products for applications such as mapping, frame monitoring, goods delivery, entertainment and more. The most common UAVs are powered by battery only, which limits the duration of operation. However, current batteries of the system depending on vehicle, payload, and wind conditions enable only flights up to 30 min for quadrotors, which can limit the usage of these UAVs for long time missions and experiments.