Development of a Multipurpose Hydro Environmental Tool using Swarms, UAV and USV

Rangel, Rodrigo Kuntz; Freitas, Joacy L.; Rodrigues, Vilmar Antônio

doi:10.1109/aero.2019.8741624

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“…For future applications of this system to water quality monitoring, the controllable range of the amphibious drones can be extended with tracking technology (e.g., 'follow me' technology [37]) and a power generator (Figure 22). Similar systems have been proposed in earlier studies [38,39]. The vertical flight ability of amphibious drones can be advantageous for locations with dense aquatic vegetation.…”

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Development and Field Testing of a Wireless Data Relay System for Amphibious Drones

Suetsugu,

Madokoro,

Nagayoshi

et al. 2024

Drones

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Amphibious (air and water) drones, capable of both aerial and aquatic operations, have the potential to provide valuable drone applications in aquatic environments. However, the limited range of wireless data transmission caused by the low antenna height on water and reflection from the water surface (e.g., 45 m for vertical half-wave dipole antennas with the XBee S2CTM, estimated using the two-ray ground reflection model) persists as a formidable challenge for amphibious systems. To overcome this difficulty, we developed a wireless data relay system for amphibious drones using the mesh-type networking functions of the XBeeTM. We then conducted field tests of the developed system in a large marsh pond to provide experimental evidence of the efficiency of the multiple-drone network in amphibious settings. In these tests, hovering relaying over water was attempted for extension and bypassing obstacles using the XBee S2CTM (6.3 mW, 2.4 GHz). During testing, the hovering drone (<10 m height from the drone controller) successfully relayed water quality data from the transmitter to the receiver located approximately 757 m away, but shoreline vegetation decreased the reachable distance. A bypassing relay test for vegetation indicated the need to confirm a connected path formed by pair(s) of mutually observable drones.

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confidence: 73%

Development and Field Testing of a Wireless Data Relay System for Amphibious Drones

Suetsugu,

Madokoro,

Nagayoshi

et al. 2024

Drones

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“…Moving forward, significant efforts which are highly viewed as the most viable solution are currently being developed, which relate to the integration of multiple types of UVs that can be implemented to collaboratively perform unmanned OWT IMR (e.g., UAV and USV [44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53], USV and UUV [54][55][56][57], UAV and UUV [58,59], or a combination of all UVs [60][61][62][63]). In addition, the use of crawler robots has also been proposed in this collaborative system to increase the capability and flexibility of WT maintenance and repairs [24].…”

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Collaborative Unmanned Vehicles for Inspection, Maintenance, and Repairs of Offshore Wind Turbines

Nordin

Sharma

Khan

et al. 2022

Drones

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Operations and maintenance of Offshore Wind Turbines (OWTs) are challenging, with manual operators constantly exposed to hazardous environments. Due to the high task complexity associated with the OWT, the transition to unmanned solutions remains stagnant. Efforts toward unmanned operations have been observed using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) but are limited mostly to visual inspections only. Collaboration strategies between unmanned vehicles have introduced several opportunities that would enable unmanned operations for the OWT maintenance and repair activities. There have been many papers and reviews on collaborative UVs. However, most of the past papers reviewed collaborative UVs for surveillance purposes, search and rescue missions, and agricultural activities. This review aims to present the current capabilities of Unmanned Vehicles (UVs) used in OWT for Inspection, Maintenance, and Repair (IMR) operations. Strategies to implement collaborative UVs for complex tasks and their associated challenges are discussed together with the strategies to solve localization and navigation issues, prolong operation time, and establish effective communication within the OWT IMR operations. This paper also briefly discusses the potential failure modes for collaborative approaches and possible redundancy strategies to manage them. The collaborative strategies discussed herein will be of use to researchers and technology providers in identifying significant gaps that have hindered the implementation of full unmanned systems which have significant impacts towards the net zero strategy.

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“…El desarrollo de UAV se han acoplado en el área ambiental para mitigar las problemáticas existentes en este sector, empleados como dispositivos para el sensado, supervisión, prevención y cuidado de ecosistemas, bosques y animales. Partiendo desde la evaluación del estado actual del medio ambiente en donde sobrevuelan las áreas y adquieren información detallada mediante sensores térmicos, laser, biosensores y cámaras multiespectrales de las condiciones ambientales, climatológicas, estrés hídrico, calidad del agua como el PH de ríos, lagos y represas [29,30], además de la evaluación de la biomasa, empleando técnicas de procesamiento a las diferentes tomas de imágenes y filtros adicionales para mejorar y aclarar los detalles de las tomas en los bosques tropicales [31,32]. Los UAV también han sido aplicados con frecuencia para evaluar la vida silvestre e identificar la abundancia animal empleando técnicas de monitoreo con sensores infrarrojos, estos drones permiten realizar operaciones seguras a bajas altitudes de vuelo y en horarios nocturnos cuando la visibilidad es nula [33,34].…”

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Vehículos aéreos no tripulados como alternativa de solución a los retos de innovación en diferentes campos de aplicación: una revisión de la literatura

Pedraza

Sarmiento

Vergel

et al. 2021

Investigación e Innovación en Ingenierías

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Objetivo: Identificar los principales campos de aplicación en los que los vehículos aéreos no tripulados son una alternativa de solución innovadora, así como las tecnologías implementadas en ellos, articulando información fragmentada. Metodología: Mediante la herramienta Tree of Science se desarrolló una búsqueda inicial en Web of Science y con base en la información obtenida se complementó con el modelo de revisión sistemática tomado como referencia las bases de datos Scopus, ScienceDirec, IEEE y Web of Science aplicando una selección y descarte de información de las diferentes investigaciones relacionadas. Resultados y Conclusiones: Se seleccionaron un total de 81 artículos que fueron analizados y estudiados acorde a las aplicaciones de enfoque donde los vehículos aéreos no tripulados han presentado aportes, soluciones y alternativas a las labores diarias implementadas en áreas como agricultura, ambiente, militar, logística, mapeo y geociencias. Los vehículos aéreos más utilizados como alternativa de solución son los multirrotor que obtuvieron un 58.82 % de participación, seguido de los ala fija o flexible con un 31.76 %. Además, se encontró que el 91.36 % adaptan cámaras en estas aeronaves para el desarrollo de sus estudios. Finalmente, se observó que el área de la logística, en términos generales, es un tema potencial para estudios futuros.

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Development of a Multipurpose Hydro Environmental Tool using Swarms, UAV and USV

Cited by 11 publications

References 8 publications

Development and Field Testing of a Wireless Data Relay System for Amphibious Drones

Development and Field Testing of a Wireless Data Relay System for Amphibious Drones

Collaborative Unmanned Vehicles for Inspection, Maintenance, and Repairs of Offshore Wind Turbines

Vehículos aéreos no tripulados como alternativa de solución a los retos de innovación en diferentes campos de aplicación: una revisión de la literatura

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