Energy Efficient Quadcopter Drone Design using Design of Experiment (DOE) Method
Zakaria MH · International Journal of Advanced Trends in Computer Science and Engineering · 2020
This paper presents the results on the development of a quad copter drone and the application of Design of Experiment (DOE) to identify the best configuration of several key parts in the drone.The idea is to get the longest flight time with minimum energy consumption (battery usage).The drone is assembled in house by the researcher by using hobby grade Arduino based microcomputer and the analysis of DOE uses 23 factorial designs with 2 replications.The results of the study is determined by identifying setup that produces lowest voltage drop that represents minimum usage of battery power.From the experiment, we conclude that optimal design will yield minimum voltage drop that reflects to high efficiency of power usage.