Odor Source Localization on a Nano Quadcopter

Castro, Alexander; Magnezi, Nevo; Sintayehu, Biruk; Quinto, Alexander; Abshire, Pamela

doi:10.1109/biocas.2018.8584769

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“…In various researches, many trials were conducted to observe air flow effect and velocity field around the drone system [23,60]. Several reports have reported the affect that chemical sensor performance would have on the air flow effect and velocity field due to air stream change [14,44,61]. Mostly, chip-sized chemical sensors such as chemi-resistor and chemi-capacitance sensors are very sensitive to the air flow effect, due to their basic principle of chemical detection being based on the chemical adsorption of detection material on chemical sensing channel [30,62].…”

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“…Quadrotor drones have become popular, finding application in various areas such as security [1], surveillance [2][3][4], rescue [5], and terrestrial exploration [6,7] owing to their mobility, ability to access confined spaces (e.g., caves, buildings, and bunkers), and availability. They play an important role in state-of-the-art transport and technological advances have enabled the integration of various types of sensors for the substitution of humans in optical [8][9][10][11][12] and olfactory [13][14][15][16] sensing. However, the application of quadrotor drones to chemical sensing has encountered relatively greater limitations owing to issues such as air flow fluctuation and chemical adsorption [17,18].…”

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The Effect of a Flow Field on Chemical Detection Performance of Quadrotor Drone

Lee

Kim

2020

Sensors

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The determination of a suitable sensor location on quadrotor drones is a very important issue for chemical reconnaissance platforms because the magnitude and direction of air velocity is different for each location. In this study, we investigated a customized chemical reconnaissance system consisting of a quadrotor drone and a chip-sized chemical sensor for detecting dimethyl-methylphosphonate (DMMP; a Sarin simulant) and investigated the chemical detection properties with respect to the sensor position through indoor experiments and particle image velocimetry (PIV) analysis of the system. The PIV results revealed an area free of vortex–vortex interaction between the drone rotors, where there was distinctly stable and uniform chemical detection of DMMP. The proposed chemical reconnaissance system was found to be realistic for practical application.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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The Effect of a Flow Field on Chemical Detection Performance of Quadrotor Drone

Lee

Kim

2020

Sensors

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“…This brief, holistic review clearly reveals the interconnection of different categories of nano/micro mechatronic systems, namely control engineering and modeling, design and fabrication, measurement engineering, and materials. Unique opportunities arise from this holistic observation, like a gassensor-equipped [201] or a nano-fiber-activated microrobot [212], which are born out of the integration of all four categories. One might argue that some of the sensors discussed in this review do not directly fit into the topic of mechatronics or robotic; yet, if novel biological nanobots are considered, the importance of such sensors become clear in future research.…”

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“…As an example, authors in [200] equipped a micro-drone with a metaloxide semiconductor gas sensor to map gas distribution in a 3D space. More interestingly, others have utilized a solid-state gas sensor on a nano quadcopter to localize the source of an odor at indoor spaces [201].…”

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A holistic survey on mechatronic Systems in Micro/Nano scale with challenges and applications

Ghanbarzadeh-Dagheyan

Jalili

Ahmadian

2021

J Micro-Bio Robot

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Micro/Nano mechatronic systems might be defined as systems that include nano-or micro-scale components. These components can be sensors, actuators, and/or physical structures. Furthermore, the high-precision control laws for such small scales are important to ensure stability, accuracy, and precision in these systems. In this writing, four categories of such small-scale systems are considered by providing multifarious novel or key examples from the literature: control engineering and modeling, design and fabrication, measurement engineering, and sensor/actuator development. The applications discussed in the examples vary from nano-positioners, crucial in systems such as atomic force microscopes, to biological sensors like carbon nano-tubes that respond to chemical or molecular stimuli. It is observed that in many instances, especially in micro−/nano-robots, the categories overlap for the completion of a system that needs to be small in size, to be controllable with high accuracy, to have high precision sensing capacity, and finally to be able to carry out submillimeter measurements. Thus, a holistic point of view upon such systems is necessary for future applications. This paper does not limit the type of sensors or actuators to the industrial ones and extends the investigated examples to encompass biological sensing and actuating mechanisms that respond to chemical stimuli, proposing for the inclusion of these units in nano −/micro-mechatronic systems intended to be used in human body or other bio-environments. Several other research opportunities are discussed, challenges in the field are identified, and some propositions are put forward for future directions.

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“…They will however still experience a linearly decreasing flight time with increasing payload weight (Zhang et al, 2021), further reduced from the additional power drain of the sensors themselves. These constraints are even more restrictive for nano drones, with examples such as the “Crazyflie” (Figure 5a), a 10 × 10 cm nano drone used in various works (Castro et al, 2018; Duisterhof et al, 2021; Ercolani et al, 2022; Neumann et al, 2019), only having a maximum payload capacity of 15 g and flight time of 7 min (Giernacki et al, 2017). Nano drones do however provide some benefits.…”

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Gas source localization and mapping with mobile robots: A review

Francis

Griffiths

et al. 2022

Journal of Field Robotics

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Within the last couple of decades, there has been increasing research into the use of mobile robots for gas sensing applications. This has led to many different branches of research, most notably on the topics of gas distribution mapping and source localization. This paper aims to provide an up to date and comprehensive overview of the research on these topics for both controlled and uncontrolled environments with ground‐based or aerial robots. To complement other review papers, a greater focus is placed on recent probabilistic algorithms developed for both single robot and multirobot applications.

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Odor Source Localization on a Nano Quadcopter

Cited by 6 publications

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The Effect of a Flow Field on Chemical Detection Performance of Quadrotor Drone

The Effect of a Flow Field on Chemical Detection Performance of Quadrotor Drone

A holistic survey on mechatronic Systems in Micro/Nano scale with challenges and applications

Gas source localization and mapping with mobile robots: A review

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