Multicopter Design Optimization and Validation

This paper presents a method for optimizing the design of a multicopter unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV, also called multirotor or drone). In practice a set of datasheets is available to the designer for the various components such as battery pack, motor and propellers. The designer can not normally de...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Øyvind Magnussen, Morten Ottestad, Geir Hovland
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Norwegian Society of Automatic Control 2015-04-01
Series:Modeling, Identification and Control
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Online Access:http://www.mic-journal.no/PDF/2015/MIC-2015-2-1.pdf