Pavkovic, Danijel (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Nava), Krznar, Matija (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Nava), Cipek, Mihael (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Nava), Zorc, Davor (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Nava), Trstenjak, Maja (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Nava)

Internal Combustion Engine Control System Design Suitable for Hybrid Propulsion Applications

Scheduled for presentation during the Regular Session "Biologically Inspired and Energy Efficient UAS" (FrC2), Friday, September 4, 2020, 15:10−15:30, Kozani

2020 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), September 1-4, 2020 (Postponed from June 9-12, 2020), Athens, Greece

This information is tentative and subject to change. Compiled on April 26, 2024

Abstract

This paper presents a generator set speed control system within a hybrid propulsion based on an internal combustion engine (ICE) as primary energy source for a hypothetical multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The engine-generator set rotational speed is estimated based on rotor position sensing from embedded Hall sensors and armature current/voltage measurements within the framework of Kalman filtering. Based on these speed estimators, ICE speed control systems featuring proportional-integral (PI) and proportional-integral-derivative (PID) feedback controllers are designed utilizing damping optimum criterion, and the resulting control systems are validated by means of simulations within Matlab/Simulink environment.