TY - JOUR
T1 - Electromagnetic Interference on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
T2 - A Case Study of High Power Transmission Line Impacts
AU - Salehi Rad, Shervin
AU - Zheng, Zilong
AU - Kheirollahi, Reza
AU - Mostafa, Amr
AU - Zhao, Shuyan
AU - Wang, Yao
AU - Chevinly, Javad
AU - Nadi, Elias
AU - Bensala, Tarik
AU - Zhang, Hua
AU - Friedman, Gary
AU - Lu, Fei
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - Nowadays, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) play a significant role in transmission line inspection. This article focuses on the inertial measurement unit (IMU) as a critical component to study the impacts of electromagnetic interference. A case study is conducted by selecting 500-kV/25-kA 60-Hz transmission lines as sources of strong electromagnetic fields and investigates their influences on an IMU unit and operation of an UAV. An experimental testing methodology is proposed to explore the impacts of magnetic and electric fields separately. A high-power inverter-based testing platform is implemented to excite a 2.2-kA planar coil and a 7.5-kA solenoid coil to generate magnetic fields and emulate high current impacts from transmission lines. Meanwhile, a pair of metal plates are adopted to generate a 2-kV/m electric field and study the high-voltage impacts. Multiple long-time continuous testings of the DJI Marvic 2 drone have been conducted in the generated magnetic and electric fields. It validates that the onboard magnetometer is sensitive to magnetic fields, while other sensors remain immune to both magnetic and electric fields, at least up to 3100 μT and 2 kV/m, respectively.
AB - Nowadays, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) play a significant role in transmission line inspection. This article focuses on the inertial measurement unit (IMU) as a critical component to study the impacts of electromagnetic interference. A case study is conducted by selecting 500-kV/25-kA 60-Hz transmission lines as sources of strong electromagnetic fields and investigates their influences on an IMU unit and operation of an UAV. An experimental testing methodology is proposed to explore the impacts of magnetic and electric fields separately. A high-power inverter-based testing platform is implemented to excite a 2.2-kA planar coil and a 7.5-kA solenoid coil to generate magnetic fields and emulate high current impacts from transmission lines. Meanwhile, a pair of metal plates are adopted to generate a 2-kV/m electric field and study the high-voltage impacts. Multiple long-time continuous testings of the DJI Marvic 2 drone have been conducted in the generated magnetic and electric fields. It validates that the onboard magnetometer is sensitive to magnetic fields, while other sensors remain immune to both magnetic and electric fields, at least up to 3100 μT and 2 kV/m, respectively.
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U2 - 10.1109/TTE.2025.3528188
DO - 10.1109/TTE.2025.3528188
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85214836943
SN - 2332-7782
VL - 11
SP - 7501
EP - 7513
JO - IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification
JF - IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification
IS - 3
ER -