Sujito, Dyah Lestari, Siti Sendari, M. Rodhi Faiz, Hung-Yu Wang, Made Radikia Prasanta, Yohanes Pandi Sihombing
Quadcopter is one of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles that can fly vertically. Quadcopter development currently focuses a lot on autopilot features that allow drones to fly autonomously. The power source in quadcopter drones is generally a lithium battery with a flight duration that depends on the load, distance, speed of the drone. Energy consumption is an important constraint for drone flight operations to reach their full potential in performing flights of optimal duration and range. This study describes the design of the quadcopter control system and focuses on the analysis of calculating battery capacity, power consumption calculated from distance and flight time. In addition, the calculation uses parameters in the form of current from the components on the quadcopter board which is added to the current in the brushless motor which is converted from PWM (Pulse Width Modulation). The research was carried out starting with the assembly of a quadcopter drone, each component would then calculate the total current. The equation is used to find the total current in the parallel circuit and series circuit on the quadcopter drone component, then a drone flight test is carried out for data collection and continued with data analysis. The results obtained are a prototype quadcopter drone and in-flight testing with a straight forward and backward route with a flying distance of 26.8 meters, the battery power consumption is 964.64 W.s, with an average drone height of 12.6 meters for 55 seconds of flying and testing of flight mission 2 for 2 minutes with a distance of 61 meters and an average height of 11.2 meters, the battery power consumption is 2169.2 W.s. © 2023 American Institute of Physics Inc.. All rights reserved.
Departement of Electrical Engineering, State University of Malang, Malang, 65145, Indonesia; Electronic Engineering Departement, National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung, 82445, Taiwan