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| author | Karpinski, Trevor Blakesley, Alexander Krol, Jakub Anvari, Bani Gorospe, George Sun, Liang |
| author_facet | Karpinski, Trevor Blakesley, Alexander Krol, Jakub Anvari, Bani Gorospe, George Sun, Liang |
| contents | Although battery technology has advanced tremendously over the past decade, it continues to be a bottleneck for the mass adoption of electric aircraft in long-haul cargo and passenger delivery. The onboard energy is expected to be utilized in an efficient manner. Energy concumption modeling research offers increasingly accurate mathematical models, but there is scant research pertaining to real-time energy optimization at an operational level. Additionally, few publications include landing and take-off energy demands in their governing models. This work presents fundamental energy equations and proposes a proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller. The proposed method demonstrates a unique approach to an energy consumption model that tracks real-time energy optimization along a predetermined path. The proposed PID controller was tested in simulation, and the results show its effectiveness and accuracy in driving the actual airspeed to converge to the optimal velocity without knowing the system dynamics. We also propose a model-predictive method to minimize the energy usage in landing and take-off by optimizing the flight trajectory. |
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| publishDate | 2025 |
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| spellingShingle | Model-Predictive Planning and Airspeed Regulation to Minimize Flight Energy Consumption Karpinski, Trevor Blakesley, Alexander Krol, Jakub Anvari, Bani Gorospe, George Sun, Liang Systems and Control Although battery technology has advanced tremendously over the past decade, it continues to be a bottleneck for the mass adoption of electric aircraft in long-haul cargo and passenger delivery. The onboard energy is expected to be utilized in an efficient manner. Energy concumption modeling research offers increasingly accurate mathematical models, but there is scant research pertaining to real-time energy optimization at an operational level. Additionally, few publications include landing and take-off energy demands in their governing models. This work presents fundamental energy equations and proposes a proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller. The proposed method demonstrates a unique approach to an energy consumption model that tracks real-time energy optimization along a predetermined path. The proposed PID controller was tested in simulation, and the results show its effectiveness and accuracy in driving the actual airspeed to converge to the optimal velocity without knowing the system dynamics. We also propose a model-predictive method to minimize the energy usage in landing and take-off by optimizing the flight trajectory. |
| title | Model-Predictive Planning and Airspeed Regulation to Minimize Flight Energy Consumption |
| topic | Systems and Control |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.01311 |