Quadcopter propeller design and performance analysis

Endrowednes Kuantama*, Dan Craciun, Ioan Tarca, Radu Tarca

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In quadcopter design process, usually the selection of rotor and propeller are treated carefully because they will determine the maneuver abilities as well as the speed and maximum carry load. Among various methods used to choose the best combination of rotor and propeller, this research used Solidworks software computational method. The final result was compared with data-sheets of three commercial rotor specification for quadcopters in order to ascertain its validity. The designed propeller’s size is 16 × 5 inch with two blades, and connected to a rotor having angular velocity between 1000 and 9000 rpm. In order to analyze the air pressure around propeller, Solidworks flow simulation was conducted. Information achieved from analyzed data show that the maximum thrust was 4144 g-force (gf), with propeller’s coefficient thrust of 0.04. These data can be used to analyze the power efficiency in rotor propeller which is then useful in choosing the right size of propeller, according to the desired thrust.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNew advances in mechanisms, mechanical transmissions and robotics
Subtitle of host publicationproceedings of The Joint International Conference of the XII International Conference on Mechanisms and Mechanical Transmissions (MTM) and the XXIII International Conference on Robotics (Robotics '16)
EditorsBurkhard Corves, Erwin-Christian Lovasz, Mathias Hüsing, Inocentiu Maniu, Corina Gruescu
Place of PublicationCham
PublisherSpringer, Springer Nature
Pages269-277
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9783319454504
ISBN (Print)9783319832968, 9783319454498
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017
Externally publishedYes
EventJoint International Conference of the 12th International Conference on Mechanisms and Mechanical Transmissions, MTM 2016 and the 23rd International Conference on Robotics, Robotics 2016 - Aachen, Germany
Duration: 26 Oct 201627 Oct 2016

Publication series

NameMechanisms and Machine Science
PublisherSpringer
Volume46
ISSN (Print)2211-0984
ISSN (Electronic)2211-0992

Conference

ConferenceJoint International Conference of the 12th International Conference on Mechanisms and Mechanical Transmissions, MTM 2016 and the 23rd International Conference on Robotics, Robotics 2016
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityAachen
Period26/10/1627/10/16

Keywords

  • Propeller
  • Quadcopter
  • Propeller design
  • Thrust
  • Solidworks

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