Practical considerations of SiC technology for UAV

Abstract

The amount of electronic equipment in the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has rapidly increased to account for fully autonomous operations within airspace traffic management systems. At the same time these electronic applications have a growing demand on energy sources. The required efficiency of power systems is required to maintain safe, long duration, and coordinated flights. There is a need to research suitable vehicular architectures to achieve higher efficiency for new electronic devices. In this paper, several experiments results on recently and typical used power systems will be aggregated and discussed for use in UAV traffic management (UTM). The paper presents possible approach which is aimed on selected light-UAV using Silicon Carbide (SiC) devices for UAV.