UAV analysis playground

Installation of uav-analysis

• Clone it with git clone git@github.com:symbench/uav-analysis.git --recurse-submodules
• Install it with pip3 install -e .
• Update it with git pull --recurse-submodules
• You also need to install the constraint-prog repo.

Compilation of new-fdm

• Go into the flight-dynamics-model submodule
• autoreconf -if
• ./configure
• make
• Do not install it, we will execute it from that subdirectory.

Hackathon 2 steps (2022. November 7)

• Used athens-graphops query --property-table-csv Battery > BatteryAll.csv to ontain the propeties of all batteries, and did the same for motors and propellers. Manually opened these and kept those marked with UAV or Both and saved them into the data_hackathon2 direcotry. Used the ./uav_analysis/components.py script to extend the Propeller.csv table with maximum and minimum RPM values.
• Used uav-analysis motor-propeller-analysis to generate the motor_propeller_analysis.csv file containing all performance data for all combinations of motors, propellers and battery voltages. We also generate performance data at 20 m/s air (crusing) speed. Used constraint-prog pareto-front --max weight 0.2 --min thrust 14.0 thrust_at20 10.0 --neg weight power --pos thrust --save motor_propeller_analysis_pareto.csv motor_propeller_analysis.csv to find one possible pareto front, and saved it into the data_hackathon2 folder.
• Used uav-analysis battery-analysis --max-parallel 2 --output battery_analysis.csv to generate all combination of batteries, then pruned it using constraint-prog pareto-front --neg total_weight --pos total_voltage total_capacity total_current --save battery_analysis_pareto.csv battery_analysis.csv, and saved it the data_hackathon2 folder.

High power design 1:

Used constraint-prog pareto-front --max weight 0.4 --neg weight power --pos thrust_at20 --save motor_propeller_analysis_pareto.csv motor_propeller_analysis.csv to find high thrust motor propeller combination, then used uav-analysis motor-propeller-approximate t_motor_AntigravityMN5008KV340 apc_propellers_13x14 to get the tables, then used uav-analysis napkin-calculator napkin2, identified the battery by its weight (which is minimized).

• 4 motors/propellers: t_motor_AntigravityMN5008KV340, apc_propellers_13x14
• 1 battery: Tattu25C23000mAh6S1PHV
• 2 wings: NACA 0012, chord 55 mm, span 390 mm, load 492 N

High power design 2:

Used uav-analysis motor-propeller-analysis --speed 30 --output motor_propeller_analysis_30.csv to generate a dataset, and constraint-prog pareto-front --max weight 0.3 --min flying_thrust 15 --neg weight hover_power --pos flying_thrust --save motor_propeller_analysis_30_pareto.csv motor_propeller_analysis_30.csv to prune it down. Sorting by flying_thrust and selecting a low weight, high flying thrust and the only 22.8 volt combination we got the motor propeller combination. We kept the same battery to avoid the fuselage redesign.

• 4 motors/propellers: t_motor_AntigravityMN6007IIKV320, apc_propellers_13x14
• 1 battery: Tattu25C23000mAh6S1PHV