Unmanned aerial system architecture for maritime missions. design &amp; hardware description

Zolich, Artur; Johansen, Tor Arne; Cisek, Krzysztof; Klausen, Kristian

doi:10.1109/red-uas.2015.7441026

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“…They mainly concentrate on an advanced platform dedicated to the largest water reservoirs (Zolich et al 2015). Most of the publications have been limited to off-the-shelf multicopters (AguirreGómez et al 2016;Dietrich 2017).…”

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Application of Low-Cost Fixed-Wing UAV for Inland Lakes Shoreline Investigation

Templin

Popielarczyk

Kosecki

2017

Pure Appl. Geophys.

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Abstract-One of the most important factors that influences the performance of geomorphologic parameters on urban lakes is the water level. It fluctuates periodically, causing shoreline changes. It is especially significant for typical environmental studies like bathymetric surveys, morphometric parameters calculation, sediment depth changes, thermal structure, water quality monitoring, etc. In most reservoirs, it can be obtained from digitized historical maps or plans or directly measured using the instruments such as: geodetic total station, GNSS receivers, UAV with different sensors, satellite and aerial photos, terrestrial and airborne light detection and ranging, or others. Today one of the most popular measuring platforms, increasingly applied in many applications is UAV. Unmanned aerial system can be a cheap, easy to use, on-demand technology for gathering remote sensing data. Our study presents a reliable methodology for shallow lake shoreline investigation with the use of a low-cost fixed-wing UAV system. The research was implemented on a small, eutrophic urban inland reservoir located in the northern part of Poland-Lake Suskie. The geodetic TS, and RTK/GNSS measurements, hydroacoustic soundings and experimental aerial mapping were conducted by the authors in 2012-2015. The article specifically describes the UAV system used for experimental measurements, the obtained results and the accuracy analysis. Final conclusions demonstrate that even a lowcost fixed-wing UAV can provide an excellent tool for accurately surveying a shallow lake shoreline and generate valuable geoinformation data collected definitely faster than when traditional geodetic methods are employed.

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Application of Low-Cost Fixed-Wing UAV for Inland Lakes Shoreline Investigation

Templin

Popielarczyk

Kosecki

2017

Pure Appl. Geophys.

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“…Ardupilot delivers wind estimates (ArduPilot 2018). The system architecture is described more thoroughly in Zolich et al (2015), and the UAV and payload used in the case study are shown in Figs. 6 and 7.…”

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Autonomous ballistic airdrop of objects from a small fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle

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Autonomous airdrop is a useful basic operation for a fixed-wing unmanned aerial system. Being able to deliver an object to a known target position extends operational range without risking human lives, but is still limited to known delivery locations. If the fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle delivering the object could also recognize its target, the system would take one step further in the direction of autonomy. This paper presents a closed-loop autonomous delivery system that uses machine vision to identify a target marked with a distinct colour, calculates the geographical coordinates of the target location and plans a path to a release point, where it delivers the object. Experimental results present a visual target estimator with a mean error distance of 3.4 m and objects delivered with a mean error distance of 5.5 m.

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“…• Hugin by FFI/Kongsberg Maritime -Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) [14] • NTNU Skywalker X8 -light-weight Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) [15] • Maritime Robotics Telemetron -Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) [16] • Maritime Robotics OceanEye -tethered aerostat [17] Activities took place near Leksa island, in central Norway (Fig. 1).…”

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Coordinated maritime missions of unmanned vehicles — Network architecture and performance analysis

Zolich

Sogrov

Vagsholm

et al. 2017

2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)

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Abstract-Multi-vehicle operations using various types of unmanned vehicles (UVs) can increase efficiency of marine data acquisition, reduce the crew risk and lower mission costs. These types of missions are very complex and often involve systems that are not interoperable. From an operational perspective however, some level of integration is necessary. Typically, a common network system architecture and Situation Awareness (SA) platform are required. The architecture allows operators to transfer data between vehicles and their operators, while the SA platform allows to monitor mission progress and react to changes. This paper presents a network system architecture used during an experiment realized in Spring 2016 in Norway. 8 departments from 5 institutions worked together to combine operation of 4 UVs (aerial, surface, underwater), a support vessel and onshore team. The description is followed by a backbone network performance analysis. Several cases are presented, with focus on a transmission between manned vessel and Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV), including direct connection, and data-relay mechanism via Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV).

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Unmanned aerial system architecture for maritime missions. design & hardware description

Cited by 25 publications

References 18 publications

Application of Low-Cost Fixed-Wing UAV for Inland Lakes Shoreline Investigation

Application of Low-Cost Fixed-Wing UAV for Inland Lakes Shoreline Investigation

Autonomous ballistic airdrop of objects from a small fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle

Coordinated maritime missions of unmanned vehicles — Network architecture and performance analysis

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