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Modeling and Evaluation of Propulsion System

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To design a multicopter, first of all, a designer has to select proper components to assemble a multicopter to meet the performance requirements, such as hover endurance, system efficiency, maximum payload, maximum pitch angle, and maximum flight distance.

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Notes

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    The multicopter stays fixed in the air, and relatively static to the ground.

  2. 2.

    The maximum throttle case is an extreme case of a multicopter, in which motors are at full throttle state and the propellers have the maximum thrust.

  3. 3.

    Here, system efficiency is the ratio of the propeller output power and the battery power at full throttle state.

  4. 4.

    The data is from https://www.apcprop.com/.

  5. 5.

    A more accurate model can be referred to [13, 14], which is nonlinear.

  6. 6.

    This equation is obtained by curve fitting from our CFD results. It can be changed to another form according to the relationship of \(C_{\text {D}}\) and \(\theta \).

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Quan, Q. (2017). Modeling and Evaluation of Propulsion System. In: Introduction to Multicopter Design and Control. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3382-7_4

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