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：基于Quadcopter的无线充电平台，适用于大规模传感应用

由于无线充电技术具有将设备从电线和电池中解放出来的巨大潜力，因此受到了学术界和工业界的广泛关注，成为近年来的关键研究领域之一。基于不同的充电技术，针对各种场景设计了许多平台，包括结构监视，栖息地监视，可穿戴设备，火山监视等。但是，这些现有平台无法在许多恶劣的环境中快速灵活地部署，从而导致高昂的部署成本。在本文中，我们提出了Q-Charge，这是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由三部分组成：能量传输模块，可编程四轴飞行器单元，和一台云服务器。无线充电器安装在四轴飞行器上，以实现远程能量传输，接收节点从传感器检索数据包，然后通过服务网关将其转发到云。我们的平台已成功实施，用于建筑结构和农田监测，这证明了Q-Charge是有效和高效的。