Host: Japan Association for Wind Engineering
Pages 149-150
Although drones are widely used for a variety of applications, the limited capacity of loadable battery is a serious limitation. In order to develop a tool to obtain paths or control methods to minimize battery consumption, an analytical model of drone is investigated by considering thrusts, torques from the rotors as well as the aerodynamics forces or wind. A quadcopter is simplified as a rigid square plate and rpm of each rotor is given to generate thrust and torque. The equations of motion of the rigid body is solved by the Newmark-b method. Some basic drone motions are obtained by investigating the time histories of the rpms of the four rotors.
