Independent Archeion study · Air-vehicle power budget

Account for the full power budget.

Symmetric frontal orthographic view of the tri-rotor study configuration
Parametric concept visualization.
34.23min · revised calculated hover endurance

See what an auxiliary load changes.

How much endurance remains when auxiliary systems enter the design? Archeion linked an independent tri-rotor study configuration to its mass and power assumptions, then recalculated stationary-hover endurance.

The revised model gives 34.23 minutes, compared with 43.52 minutes initially. This is a budget correction rather than a performance improvement: the added loads make the calculated endurance estimate more complete.

348.64 Wdocumented auxiliary-power assumption
13.645 kgrevised mass · previously 13.492 kg

The engineering decision

Measure the servo duty cycle before resizing the energy system.

The current model conservatively treats servo power as continuous. A measured duty profile would show whether to revise the battery capacity, auxiliary hardware or endurance requirement for the next candidate.

Method & context

The recorded calculation changed mass from 13.4918 to 13.6448 kg and auxiliary power from 0 to 348.6371 W. Calculated stationary-hover endurance changed from 43.5200 to 34.2277 minutes (−21.35%). Much of the auxiliary budget comes from the conservative continuous-servo assumption.

This is a preliminary design comparison. Hover endurance is calculated; flight, transition and assembly performance require physical testing. This presentation geometry is separate from the study’s energy-budget calculations; the rendering does not establish structural or aerodynamic performance.

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