TY - GEN
T1 - Study of effects of high-altitude environments on multicopter and fixed-wing UAVs' energy consumption and flight time
AU - Paredes, Juan Augusto
AU - Saito, Carlos
AU - Abarca, Monica
AU - Cuellar, Francisco
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/7/1
Y1 - 2017/7/1
N2 - The effects of low air density (characteristic at high-altitude environments) on small-sized Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are studied in this paper. Flight data from a fixed-wing aircraft and a quadcopter (in representation of multicopters) is examined to substantiate the influence high altitude conditions have on small UAVs' flight. By using aeronautical theoretical background to construct a hypothesis concerning how altitude affects the energy consumption and, consequently, flight time of both types of UAV, a qualitative analysis of flight missions held at different altitudes will be performed to find a correlation between the energy consumption and target altitude to determine if low altitude flight missions could be used to predict consumption at high-altitude environments. Finally, guidelines abstracted from these flight experiences will be given to help in the future design of UAVs with high altitude applications.
AB - The effects of low air density (characteristic at high-altitude environments) on small-sized Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are studied in this paper. Flight data from a fixed-wing aircraft and a quadcopter (in representation of multicopters) is examined to substantiate the influence high altitude conditions have on small UAVs' flight. By using aeronautical theoretical background to construct a hypothesis concerning how altitude affects the energy consumption and, consequently, flight time of both types of UAV, a qualitative analysis of flight missions held at different altitudes will be performed to find a correlation between the energy consumption and target altitude to determine if low altitude flight missions could be used to predict consumption at high-altitude environments. Finally, guidelines abstracted from these flight experiences will be given to help in the future design of UAVs with high altitude applications.
KW - Aerospace Technology
KW - Aircraft Design
KW - Airworthiness
KW - Autonomous Vehicle Navigation
KW - Energy Consumption
KW - Flight Time
KW - High-Altitude Missions
KW - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85044940448&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/COASE.2017.8256340
DO - 10.1109/COASE.2017.8256340
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85044940448
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering
SP - 1645
EP - 1650
BT - 2017 13th IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, CASE 2017
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 13th IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, CASE 2017
Y2 - 20 August 2017 through 23 August 2017
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