Digital Twin System for Propulsion Design of UAVs

Abstract

With the widespread applications of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in various domains, the need to develop specialized UAVs to perform various operations is increasing, which presents challenges to the design of UAVs. On the other hand, the digital twin has demonstrated its great potential in smart manufacturing and other areas. This paper introduces a digital twin system for the propulsion design of UAVs, developed with Matlab and Unity. Our system is armed with a trajectory planning and visual analysis component to help evaluation of UAV propulsion design effectively so that users can explore how different propulsion configurations can affect the trajectory and vice versa. The performance and effectiveness of the system are verified by testing various aspects such as FPS, calculation analysis, and network transmission performance.