05 - Propulsion and Energy
A MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL STRATEGY FOR THE ENERGY MANAGEMENT OF HYBRID ELECTRIC PROPULSION SYSTEMS IN FIXED-WING UAVS
A. Suti¹, M. Budinger¹, G. Di Rito, Università di Pisa, Italy; A. Reysset¹, I. Hazyuk¹; ¹INSA Toulouse, France
This paper proposes a model predictive control based energy management strategy for retrofitting conventional internal combustion engine based propulsion systems with hybrid electric ones in fixed-wing UAVs. The proposed strategy, assessed through an experimentally validated simulator, shows improved performance in terms of fuel savings and battery state-of-charge variation over flight missions.
DOI: 10.71945/icas2026_0613