Development of an autonomous unmanned aerial system to collect time-stamped samples from the atmosphere and localize potential pathogen sources

Journal of Field Robotics

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 961-976

  Gonzalez, Felipe ^a   Castro, Marcos P G ^a   Narayan, Pritesh ^a   Walker, Rod ^a   Zeller, Les ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR SAMPLING; AUTONOMOUS OPERATIONS; FLIGHT TESTING; HARDWARE DEVELOPMENT; LOW ALTITUDES; REGION OF INTEREST; REMOTE LOCATION; SAMPLING DEVICES; SINGLE MISSION; SPORE TRAPS; UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS; WAYPOINTS; WIND-TUNNEL TESTING;

FLIGHT SIMULATORS; INTEGRATION; PATHOGENS; SAFETY TESTING;

FLIGHT DYNAMICS;

EID: 80054078500     PISSN: 15564959     EISSN: 15564967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rob.20417     Document Type: Article

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