A demanding prototype development schedule
An eight-month period to develop inverter software from scratch to a piloted prototype flight. Fault handling and the constraints of the aviation application were central engineering concerns.
Model the propulsion system and control
The described work used MATLAB/Simulink to investigate d–q-frame field-oriented control and the required mechanical output. A state machine was developed to handle fault conditions in the electric propulsion system.
Exercise the controller before flight
Testing in MATLAB/Simulink and in dSPACE/OPAL-RT real-time HIL environments, followed by compiling and deploying the algorithm to the physical controller.
Flight milestones and source attribution
The magniX/Harbour Air Beaver prototype flight on December 10, 2019, and the magniX/AeroTEC Cessna Caravan prototype flight on May 28, 2020.
A linked APEGA article independently reports Siyu Leng’s propulsion-software contribution and the 2019 flight.
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Public reporting supports Siyu Leng’s propulsion-software contribution and the 2019 flight; it does not verify every technical claim in the supplied document.
Video link supplied in the company document; not independently reviewed for technical performance.
The supplied document is the source for the technical project account and 2020 milestone. The linked APEGA article corroborates Siyu Leng’s software contribution and the 2019 flight. No certification, customer endorsement or unqualified world-first claim is made.
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Hardware-in-the-loop test setup · supplied document
From offline simulation to real-time HIL.
Develop propulsion-system models in MATLAB/Simulink and bring machine and controller behavior into real-time testing.
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SPM and IPM rotor structures · supplied document
Motor models built for control development.
Develop linear and nonlinear electric machine models from finite-element data or an initial machine description.
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