Design Parameters Effects on a Quadrotor Mini-UAV Consumed Energy

This article focuses on the influence that a selection of design parameters has on the energy consumption of a quadcopter minidrone.The minidrone was modeled as a rigid body of the cylinder type with a 30 cm of radius, a 1,47 kg of weight and a 20 cm of height to assess the impacts of the piloting mode.To determine the mass and size effects, 250 g of loads were added, radius and height were increased 5 cm.A cubic minidrone and an oblate spheroid minidrone were studied to understand the influence of the shape choice.It was found that the oblate spheroid minidrone is the least energy-consuming, if we refer to the traveled distance and the maximum reached altitude with the same consumed energy.MATLAB-SIMULINK are used for the simulation.