Metrology for drone and drone for metrology: Measurement systems on small civilian drones

Author

Daponte, Pasquale ; De Vito, Luca ; Mazzilli, Gianluca ; Picariello, Francesco ; Rapuano, Sergio ; Riccio, Maria

Author_Institution

Dept. of Eng., Univ. of Sannio, Benevento, Italy

fYear

2015

fDate

4-5 June 2015

Firstpage

306

Lastpage

311

Abstract

The application fields of modern Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), such as light Remotely Piloted Systems, are moving from military fields to a wide range of civilian applications. These platforms embed several sensors that enable the use of UAVs as remote measurement systems. This paper deals with a survey of measurement applications based on UAV. In the first part, several classifications of UAVs are reported. Then, the architectural overview of a quadrotor UAV and several examples of measurement systems embedded on drone for indoor and outdoor navigation are described. In the last part, a review of civilian applications using the drone as remote measurement system is presented and discussed.

Keywords

aircraft instrumentation; autonomous aerial vehicles; helicopters; indoor navigation; measurement systems; sensors; indoor navigation; outdoor navigation; quadrotor UAV; remote measurement systems; remotely piloted systems; sensors; small civilian drones; unmanned aerial vehicles; Accuracy; Cameras; Global Positioning System; Inspection; Monitoring; Sensors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Metrology for Aerospace (MetroAeroSpace), 2015 IEEE

Conference_Location

Benevento

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MetroAeroSpace.2015.7180673

Filename

7180673