Analysis and Development of a Halbach Array Motor for Application into a Novel Delivery Drone Driving Cycle for Powertrain Optimization and Maximization of Delivery Radius

Large companies such as Amazon and Google are currently testing deliveries using unmanned drones, with the intent of using these drones on the market. Topics tackled in this field of research include delivery routing optimization, object collision routing optimization, battery management optimization, and the addition of solar panels on the drones. Little publicly available research has been found to have been conducted on the developing methods to optimize the powertrain of the drones to maximize their delivery radii. To achieve this end, this work puts forth a delivery drone driving cycle simulation written in MATLAB with which to monitor their performance and fine-tune their properties. A halbach array motor is designed and analyzed in ANSYS Maxwell, and a data processing tool is written in MATLAB to manipulate the halbach array motor and propeller data into useable states for the simulation. The driving cycle simulation is tested on fifty-four drone configurations.M.A.S