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Trajectory Simulation With Battery Modeling For Electric Powered Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Ege Konuk
Trajectory Simulation With Battery Modeling For Electric Powered Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Ege Konuk
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Theses & Dissertations
Fixed wing electric powered unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has been widely adopted for the last decade in a great number of applications. One of the primary advantages to fixed wing versus multi-rotor designs is the efficiency in forward flight with best possible range and endurance capabilities. In electrically powered air vehicles range and endurance are monitored by the State-of-Charge (SOC) of the battery. To understand the capabilities of the battery, discharge experiments can be conducted in lab environments; however, sometimes the results are difficult to integrate in flight simulations.
In this thesis, a trajectory simulation is developed that can estimate …