01268nas a2200145   4500000000100000008004100001260002700042100002400069700001700093700001900110700001800129245005000147490000900197520091600206       2022                            d  bSpringeraNice, France1 aTadeusz Czachórski1 aErol Gelenbe1 aGodlove Kuaban1 aDariusz Marek00aOptimizing Energy Usage for an Electric Drone0 v15963 a<p>Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are rapidly gaining popu-<br />
larity in a wide variety of applications, e.g., agriculture, health care, envi-<br />
ronmental management, supply chains, law enforcement, surveillance,<br />
and photography. Dones are often powered by batteries, making energy<br />
a critical resource that must be optimised during the mission of the<br />
drone. The duration of a done’s mission depends on the amount of energy<br />
required to perform some manoeuvering actions (takeoff, level flight, hov-<br />
ering, and landing), the energy required to power the ICT modules in<br />
the drone, the drone’s speed, payload, and the wind. In this paper, we<br />
present a model that minimizes the energy consumption of a low power<br />
drone and maximizes the time required to completely drain the drone’s<br />
battery and ensure the safe landing of the drone.</p>