A surveillance task for a UAV in a natural disaster scenario

Author

Neto, J.M.M. ; Paixão, Ronan A da ; Rodrigues, Luiz Renault L ; Moreira, Erick M. ; dos Santos, Joao Carlos Jose ; Rosa, Paulo Fernando F

Author_Institution

Inst. Mil. de Eng., Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

fYear

2012

fDate

28-31 May 2012

Firstpage

1516

Lastpage

1522

Abstract

This paper presents a design for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with a modular embedded architecture. This research is structured in three stages: (a) embedded systems, (b) communications link and (c) inertial navigation system. Systems integration was satisfactorily implemented and several remotely controlled flight tests were conducted. Finally, real time experiments were conducted during an environmental disaster in mountainous region, making aerial reconnaissance of areas devastated by mudslides. In this test the system has shown to be adequate and robust.

Keywords

aerospace control; autonomous aerial vehicles; disasters; embedded systems; inertial navigation; UAV; communications link; embedded systems; inertial navigation system; modular embedded architecture; natural disaster scenario; remotely controlled flight tests; surveillance task; unmanned aerial vehicle; Computers; Magnetic resonance imaging; Monitoring; Sensor systems; Telemetry;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics (ISIE), 2012 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Hangzhou

ISSN

2163-5137

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0159-6

Electronic_ISBN

2163-5137

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISIE.2012.6237316

Filename

6237316