Savvaris, AlXie, YeMalandrakis, KonstantinosTsourdos, Antonios2019-04-152019-04-152016-08-08Savvaris A, Xie Y, Malandrakis K, Lopez M & Tsourdos A (2016) Development of a fuel cell hybrid-powered unmanned aerial vehicle. 24th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Athens, 21-24 June 2016.978-1-4673-8347-9http://doi.org/10.1109/MED.2016.7536038https://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/14084This paper describes the design and development of a hybrid fuel cell/battery propulsion system for a long endurance small UAV. The high level system architecture is presented, followed by the hardware-in-the-loop testing and performance analysis. A high fidelity 6-DoF simulation model of the complete system was developed and used to test the system under different battery state-of-charge. The simulation model included the power manager for the hybrid propulsion system configuration, which is based on rule-based control. The simulation results are compared with the experimental results obtained from the Hardware-in-the-Loop testing.enAttribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/UAVPEMFCHybrid Propulsion SystemPower ManagementRule-Based ControlHardware-in-the-Loop TestConference paper