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Brushless DC Motor with Permanent Magnets for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Hybrid Drive

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Hybrid drive for a small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) must fulfil specified requirements. Parallel hybrid drive system is preferred in UAVs. Requirements for electrical machine used in a hybrid drive can be different because of variety of tasks which UAVs can realize. In the analysed case, the electric machine was predicted to operate as a combustion engine starter, a motor and a generator. Brushless DC motor 24/20 with permanent magnets was designed to be used in the hybrid drive. In the paper, original circuit-based mathematical model of brushless DC motor with permanent magnets known as the flux model which takes into account the nonlinearity of the magnetic circuit was presented. Waveforms of chosen parameters of the machine in different operation modes (starter, motor and generator) were determined based on the simulation model. In the motoring operation, dynamic variation of one control parameter (i.e. dynamic change of commutation point) was used to increase generated electromagnetic torque.

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The research work was supported in part by The National Centre for Research and Development Project DZP/INNOLOT-1/2020/2013 of Poland and in part by the statutory funds of the Department of Electrodynamics and Electrical Machine Systems, Rzeszow University of Technology.

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Bogusz, P., Korkosz, M., Prokop, J., Wygonik, P. (2018). Brushless DC Motor with Permanent Magnets for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Hybrid Drive. In: Mazur, D., Gołębiowski, M., Korkosz, M. (eds) Analysis and Simulation of Electrical and Computer Systems. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 452. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63949-9_3

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