NDLI: Towards a more efficient quadrotor configuration

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Driessens, S. Pounds, P.E.I.
Copyright Year	2013
Description	Author affiliation: Univ. of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia (Driessens, S.; Pounds, P.E.I.)
Abstract	The small rotor sizes of quadrotors and multirotors makes them intrinsically less energy efficient than a traditional helicopter with a large single rotor. However, the quadrotor configuration's innate simplicity and inexpensive construction recommends its use in many aerial robotics applications. We present a four-rotor configuration that merges the simplicity of a quadrotor with the energy efficiency of a helicopter, while improving manoeuvering rotor bandwidth. This class of aircraft, called a `Y4' or `triangular quadrotor', consists of a single fixed-pitch main rotor with three smaller rotors on booms that provide both counter-torque and manoeuvering control. Our analysis indicates that a Y4 may provide a 20 per cent reduction in hovering power required, compared with a similarly sized conventional quadrotor. Using a matched pair of quadrotor/triangular quadrotor aircraft, our preliminary experiments show that the test-bed Y4 used 15 per cent less power, without optimisation. We present a dynamic model and demonstrate experimentally that the aircraft can be stabilised in flight with PID control.
Sponsorship	IEEE Ind. Electron. Soc.
Starting Page	1386
Ending Page	1392
File Size	2086724
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
ISSN	21530858
DOI	10.1109/IROS.2013.6696530
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2013-11-03
Publisher Place	Japan
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Rotors Helicopters Standards Torque Atmospheric modeling Aerospace control
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Control and Systems Engineering Computer Science Applications Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Software

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