Live Demo: Design and FPGA Implementation of a Component Level UAV Simulator*

In this work, we introduce a fast, component based simulation environment for UAVs. The simulator framework is proposed as combination of three sub-models: i. battery, ii. BLDC and propeller, iii. dynamic model. The model parameters are extracted for a particular UAV for testing the simulator. The simulator is implemented on an FPGA to increase simulation speed. The simulator calculates battery SOC, position, velocity and acceleration of the UAV with gravity, drag, propeller air inflow velocity. The simulator runs on the FPGA fabric of XilinxXCKU13P with simulation steps of 1 ms.