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DOI: 10.4121/8bcecbac-5478-4595-b629-4378feac6dcb

Ntouros, Evangelos; Kelley, Pavel; Smeur, Ewoud (2025): Data and Code for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles airspeed estimation using propeller feedback. Version 1. 4TU.ResearchData. software. https://doi.org/10.4121/8bcecbac-5478-4595-b629-4378feac6dcb.v1

Categories

• Aerospace Engineering
• Engineering

Keywords

BEM ESC feedback flight data propeller power propeller speed UAV airspeed wind tunnel data

Licence

GPL-3.0

Interoperability

• RO-Crate Metadata

Reproducibility

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by Evangelos Ntouros , Pavel Kelley, Ewoud Smeur

This repository contains MATLAB scripts to derive and validate an airspeed model for fixed-wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) using solely propeller power and rotational speed data. The model can be used to replace Pitot-tube-based airspeed sensors, or contribute to redundancy in airspeed estimation. It does not require knowledge of the vehicle’s dynamic model and is computationally lightweight. It leverages power and rotational speed feedback, which is readily available from modern Electronic Speed Controllers (ESCs), thereby enabling seamless integration with existing systems and off-the-shelf components.

History

• 2025-10-07 first online, published, posted

Publisher

4TU.ResearchData

Format

.m, .mat, .dat, .eps, .fig, .jl, .png

Associated peer-reviewed publication

Airspeed estimation for UAVs using only propeller feedback

References

• https://github.com/tudelft/propeller_airspeed_sensor

Code hosting project url

https://github.com/tudelft/propeller_airspeed_sensor

Organizations

TU Delft, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Department of Control and Operations, Section Control & Simulation