This article focuses on the influence that a selection of design parameters has on the energy consumption of a quadcopter minidrone. The minidrone was modeled as a rigid body of the cylinder type with a 30 cm of radius, a 1,47 kg of weight and a 20 cm of height to assess the impacts of the piloting mode. To determine the mass and size effects, 250 g of loads were added, radius and height were increased 5 cm. A cubic minidrone and an oblate spheroid minidrone were studied to understand the influence of the shape choice. It was found that the oblate spheroid minidrone is the least energy-consuming, if we refer to the traveled distance and the maximum reached altitude with the same consumed energy. MATLAB-SIMULINK are used for the simulation.
@artical{e13122024ijcatr13121001,
Title = "Design Parameters Effects on a Quadrotor Mini-UAV Consumed Energy ",
Journal ="International Journal of Computer Applications Technology and Research (IJCATR)",
Volume = "13",
Issue ="12",
Pages ="1 - 4",
Year = "2024",
Authors ="E. F. Herinantenaina, E. Rastefano"}