TY - GEN
T1 - SUAS for deployment and recovery of an environmental sensor probe
AU - Vacek, Lukas
AU - Atter, Edward
AU - Rizo, Pedro
AU - Nam, Brian
AU - Kortvelesy, Ryan
AU - Kaufman, Delaney
AU - Das, Jnaneshwar
AU - Kumar, Vijay
N1 - Funding Information:
We gratefully acknowledge NSF grant CNS-1521617, USDA grant 2015-67021-23857 under the National Robotics Initiative, and a gift from Microsoft Research for supporting this work.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/7/25
Y1 - 2017/7/25
N2 - Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) are already revolutionizing agricultural and environmental monitoring through the acquisition of high-resolution multi-spectral imagery on-demand. However, in order to accurately understand various complex environmental and agricultural processes, it is often necessary to collect physical samples of pests, pathogens, and insects from the field for ex-situ analysis. In this paper, we describe a sUAS for autonomous deployment and recovery of a novel environmental sensor probe. We present the UAS software and hardware stack, and a probe design that can be adapted to collect a variety of environmental samples and can be transported autonomously for off-site analysis. Our team participated in an NSF-sponsored student unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) challenge, where we used our sUAS to deploy and recover a scale-model mosquito trap outdoors. Results from indoor and field trials are presented, and the challenges experienced in detecting and docking with the probe in outdoor conditions are discussed.
AB - Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) are already revolutionizing agricultural and environmental monitoring through the acquisition of high-resolution multi-spectral imagery on-demand. However, in order to accurately understand various complex environmental and agricultural processes, it is often necessary to collect physical samples of pests, pathogens, and insects from the field for ex-situ analysis. In this paper, we describe a sUAS for autonomous deployment and recovery of a novel environmental sensor probe. We present the UAS software and hardware stack, and a probe design that can be adapted to collect a variety of environmental samples and can be transported autonomously for off-site analysis. Our team participated in an NSF-sponsored student unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) challenge, where we used our sUAS to deploy and recover a scale-model mosquito trap outdoors. Results from indoor and field trials are presented, and the challenges experienced in detecting and docking with the probe in outdoor conditions are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICUAS.2017.7991484
DO - 10.1109/ICUAS.2017.7991484
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85034032886
T3 - 2017 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2017
SP - 1022
EP - 1029
BT - 2017 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2017
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2017 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2017
Y2 - 13 June 2017 through 16 June 2017
ER -