Power and weight considerations in small, agile quadrotors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 9083, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Mulgaonkar, Yash ^a   Whitzer, Michael ^a   Morgan, Brian ^b   Kroninger, Christopher M ^b   Harrington, Aaron M ^b   Kumar, Vijay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Micro aerial vehicles; Power consumption; Quadrotors; Scaling laws; Size; Weight constraints

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV); NANOTECHNOLOGY; SCALING LAWS;

CHARACTERISTIC LENGTH; LITHIUM POLYMER BATTERIES; MICRO AERIAL VEHICLE; POWER AND ENERGY CONSUMPTION; QUADROTORS; SIZE; SPECIFIC ENERGY; WEIGHT CONSTRAINTS;

AIRCRAFT;

EID: 84905728019     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2051112     Document Type: Conference Paper

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