January 2021
Intermediate to advanced
650 pages
21h 16m
English
Tao Leia,b aElectrical Engineering Department of Automation School of Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, ChinabKey laboratory of Aircraft Electric Propulsion Technology, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China, Xi'an, China
This chapter presents several basic architectures of power trains for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) based on traditional internal combustion engines (ICEs) and fuel cells. The developing trends of renewable energy applications in UAVs are analyzed in this chapter. The necessity of energy management systems and strategies for power trains of UAVs is discussed according to the overall flight performance ...
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