Experiments and simulations for the development of a dual-stator PMSM for lightweight fixed-wing UAV propulsion

Experiments and simulations for the development of a dual-stator PMSM for lightweight fixed-wing UAV propulsion

Aleksander Suti, Gianpietro Di Rito, Roberto Galatolo, Luca Sani, Giuseppe Mattei

Abstract. The work summarizes the experimental and simulation studies carried out on the full-electric propulsion system of a lightweight fixed-wing UAV developed in the research program TERSA. The electric motor, specifically designed for the project, is a double-stator axial-flux PMSM with single output shaft, directly connected to a twin-blade fixed-pitch propeller. The system dynamics is firstly addressed by nonlinear simulation, modelling the motor and related sensors, the propeller and the digital controllers, to design the closed-loop control architecture. Successively, an experimental campaign is defined to identify/substantiate the main motor parameters (resistance and inductance of phases, torque and speed constants, back-electromotive force waveforms) and to validate the closed-loop control design.

Keywords
UAV, Full-Electric Propulsion, Axial-Flux PMSM, Simulation, Testing

Published online 11/1/2023, 5 pages
Copyright © 2023 by the author(s)
Published under license by Materials Research Forum LLC., Millersville PA, USA

Citation: Aleksander Suti, Gianpietro Di Rito, Roberto Galatolo, Luca Sani, Giuseppe Mattei, Experiments and simulations for the development of a dual-stator PMSM for lightweight fixed-wing UAV propulsion, Materials Research Proceedings, Vol. 37, pp 89-93, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21741/9781644902813-20

The article was published as article 20 of the book Aeronautics and Astronautics

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