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Energy System Instrumentation and Data Acquisition for Flight Testing a Long-Endurance, Solar-Powered Unmanned Aircraft
AIAA Propulsion and Energy 2021 Forum, July 2021, Virtual Event
Abstract
The growing application space of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is creating the need for aircraft capable of autonomous, long-distance, and long-endurance flights. The two main challenges are the limited power capacity of UAVs, as well as the adaptation to real-time detected stimuli, changing the course of the mission. The UIUC-TUM Solar Flyer addresses the aforementioned challenges by balancing power consumption and solar power generation, and therefore enabling on-board data processing for real-time mission adaptation. This paper describes the energy system instrumentation and data acquisition integrated into the aircraft, enabling long-endurance flight testing to be performed. The paper presents an overview of the aircraft and avionics, details regarding energy system instrumentation, and then flight test results from a 1 hour flight performed under near ideal conditions in the Fall of 2020.
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@inproceedings{daq_solar_aiaa21,
title = {{Energy System Instrumentation and Data Acquisition for Flight Testing a Long-Endurance, Solar-Powered Unmanned Aircraft}},
author = {Dantsker, Or D. and Caccamo, Marco and Mancuso, Renato},
booktitle = {AIAA Propulsion and Energy 2021 Forum},
year = 2021,
month = jul,
address = {Virtual Event},
doi = {10.2514/6.2021-3721},
url = {https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2021-3721}
}
TY - CONF AU - Dantsker, Or D. AU - Caccamo, Marco AU - Mancuso, Renato TI - Energy System Instrumentation and Data Acquisition for Flight Testing a Long-Endurance, Solar-Powered Unmanned Aircraft T2 - AIAA Propulsion and Energy 2021 Forum PY - 2021 DA - 2021/07// CY - Virtual Event DO - 10.2514/6.2021-3721 UR - https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2021-3721 AB - The growing application space of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is creating the need for aircraft capable of autonomous, long-distance, and long-endurance flights. The two main challenges are the limited power capacity of UAVs, as well as the adaptation to real-time detected stimuli, changing the course of the mission. The UIUC-TUM Solar Flyer addresses the aforementioned challenges by balancing power consumption and solar power generation, and therefore enabling on-board data processing for real-time mission adaptation. This paper describes the energy system instrumentation and data acquisition integrated into the aircraft, enabling long-endurance flight testing to be performed. The paper presents an overview of the aircraft and avionics, details regarding energy system instrumentation, and then flight test results from a 1 hour flight performed under near ideal conditions in the Fall of 2020. ER -
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O. D. Dantsker, M. Caccamo, and R. Mancuso, “Energy System Instrumentation and Data Acquisition for Flight Testing a Long-Endurance, Solar-Powered Unmanned Aircraft,” in AIAA Propulsion and Energy 2021 Forum, Jul. 2021, doi: 10.2514/6.2021-3721.
Dantsker, O. D., Caccamo, M., & Mancuso, R. (2021). Energy System Instrumentation and Data Acquisition for Flight Testing a Long-Endurance, Solar-Powered Unmanned Aircraft. In AIAA Propulsion and Energy 2021 Forum. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2021-3721