Dynamic Performance of a Permanent Magnet Brushless DC Motor for UAV Electric Propulsion System - Part I

Author

Solomon, Olusegun ; Famouri, Parviz

Author_Institution

Lane Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Electr. Eng., West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, WV

fYear

2006

fDate

6-10 Nov. 2006

Firstpage

1400

Lastpage

1405

Abstract

The dynamic performance of a permanent magnet brushless DC motor (PMBDCM) for electric propulsion of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system is presented. A relationship between the aircraft motion equations and the machine equations was established and used to study the influence of machine dynamic performance on aircraft motion path from takeoff to steady level flight. Simulations results showed loss of altitude and exacerbative thrust when system was operated in speed control mode. The work presented here is aimed at establishing the basis for development of improvement schemes to be presented in the second part of this paper

Keywords

aircraft; brushless DC motors; electric propulsion; permanent magnet motors; remotely operated vehicles; telerobotics; PMBDCM; UAV electric propulsion system; aircraft motion equations; machine equations; permanent magnet brushless DC motor; steady level flight; unmanned aerial vehicle; Aerodynamics; Aerospace industry; Aircraft propulsion; Brushless DC motors; Equations; Hybrid electric vehicles; Permanent magnet motors; Rotors; Unmanned aerial vehicles; Vehicle dynamics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

IEEE Industrial Electronics, IECON 2006 - 32nd Annual Conference on

Conference_Location

Paris

ISSN

1553-572X

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0390-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IECON.2006.347808

Filename

4153696