TY - GEN
T1 - Flight performance assessment of land surveying trajectories for multiple UAV platforms
AU - Mora, Andres
AU - Vemprala, Sai
AU - Carrio, Adrian
AU - Saripalli, Srikanth
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2016/3/24
Y1 - 2016/3/24
N2 - Crop monitoring of large areas using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) is a process that involves multiple trade-offs. For a particular location a multicopter may be more suitable than a fixed-wing due to landscape, altitude, or weather conditions. In other cases the opposite may also be true and the best solution considering additional factors such as available energy and the time it takes to sample the area of interest. In this paper we evaluate the energy consumption, the total distance traveled, and the total time it takes for two unmanned aerial platforms, a fixed-wing and a multicopter to traverse different trajectories. We evaluate the performance of these two platforms using two trajectories: lawnmower and spiral. These trajectories guarantee a 60% both in overlap and sidelap. We analyze the trade-offs between traversing a given trajectory with both platforms and the impact of using a lawnmower instead of a spiral pattern in the context of precision agriculture applications.
AB - Crop monitoring of large areas using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) is a process that involves multiple trade-offs. For a particular location a multicopter may be more suitable than a fixed-wing due to landscape, altitude, or weather conditions. In other cases the opposite may also be true and the best solution considering additional factors such as available energy and the time it takes to sample the area of interest. In this paper we evaluate the energy consumption, the total distance traveled, and the total time it takes for two unmanned aerial platforms, a fixed-wing and a multicopter to traverse different trajectories. We evaluate the performance of these two platforms using two trajectories: lawnmower and spiral. These trajectories guarantee a 60% both in overlap and sidelap. We analyze the trade-offs between traversing a given trajectory with both platforms and the impact of using a lawnmower instead of a spiral pattern in the context of precision agriculture applications.
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U2 - 10.1109/RED-UAS.2015.7440984
DO - 10.1109/RED-UAS.2015.7440984
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84965145687
T3 - 2015 Workshop on Research, Education and Development of Unmanned Aerial Systems, RED-UAS 2015
SP - 1
EP - 7
BT - 2015 Workshop on Research, Education and Development of Unmanned Aerial Systems, RED-UAS 2015
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2015 Workshop on Research, Education and Development of Unmanned Aerial Systems, RED-UAS 2015
Y2 - 23 November 2015 through 25 November 2015
ER -