Evaluation of altitude sensors for a crop spraying drone

Drones

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 1-16

  Hentschke, Matheus ^a,b   de Freitas, Edison Pignaton ^a   Hennig, Carlos Henrique ^b   da Veiga, Igor Caike Girardi ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b Skydrones Avionics Technology   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Altitude; Crop spraying; Pulverization; TOF sensors; UAV

Indexed keywords

DRONES; NETWORK SECURITY; PRECISION AGRICULTURE;

ALTITUDE; CONDITION; CROP SPRAYING; DENSITY VARIATIONS; INTRINSIC FACTORS; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; PULVERISATION; RANGE-FINDER; TOF SENSOR; VARIATION FACTOR;

RANGE FINDERS;

EID: 85075733478     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2504446X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/drones2030025     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Spoorthi, S.; Shadaksharappa, B.; Suraj, S.; Manasa, V.K. Freyr drone: Pesticide/fertilizers spraying drone—An agricultural approach. In Proceedings of the 2017 2nd International Conference on Computing and Communications Technologies, Tamil Nadu, India, 23–24 February 2017.
2. LeddarTech. LeddarTech—Technology Fundamentals; LeddarTech: Quebec City, QC, Canada, 2017.
3. Sensorsinc. Sensors Unlimited-LADAR; Sensors Unlimited: Princeton, NJ, USA, 2017.
4. Aerotenna. Why µLanding? Aerotenna: Lawrence, KS, USA, 2017.
5. Cherian, A.; Andersh, J.; Morellas, V.; Papanikolopoulos, N.; Mettler, B. Autonomous altitude estimation of a UAV using a single onboard camera. In Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS, St. Louis, MO, USA, 10–15 October 2009.
6. Nelson, R.C. Flight Stability and Automatic Control, 2nd ed.; Mechanical Engineering–Springer: New York, NY, USA, 1989; ISBN 978-0070462731.
7. Eynard, D.; Vasseur, P.; Demonceaux, C.; Frémont, V. UAV altitude estimation by mixed stereoscopic vision. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS, Taipei, Taiwan, 18–22 October 2010.
8. Moore, R.J.D.; Thurrowgood, S.; Bland, D.; Soccol, D.; Srinivasan, M.V. UAV altitude and attitude stabilisation using a coaxial stereo vision system. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Anchorage, AK, USA, 3–8 May 2010.
9. Campbell, J.P.; Blinn, J.C. Experimental Evaluation of Passive Microwave Velocity/Altitude Sensing. Water Resour. Res. 1968, 18, 1137–1142. [CrossRef]
10. Cho, A.; Kang, Y.S.; Park, B.J.; Yoo, C.S.; Koo, S.O. Altitude integration of radar altimeter and GPS/INS for automatic takeoff and landing of a UAV. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems, Venice, Itatly, 26–29 October 2011.
11. Thomas, L.; Monin, A.; Mouyon, P.; Houberdon, N.E.D. Gaussian mixture filtering for data fusion with switching observation models: Application to aircraft relative altimetry. In Proceedings of the Conference on Control and Fault-Tolerant Systems, SysTol, Nice, France, 9–11 October 2013.
12. Faiçal, B.S.; Pessin, G.; Filho, G.P.R.; Furquim, G.; de Carvalho, A.C.P.L.F.; Ueyama, J. Fine-tuning of UAV control rules for spraying pesticides on crop fields. In Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE 26th International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, Limassol, Cyprus, 10–12 November 2014.
13. Stamatescu, G.; Stamatescu, I.; Popescu, D.; Mateescu, C. Sensor fusion method for altitude estimation in mini-UAV applications. In Proceedings of the 2015 7th International Conference on Electronics, Computers and Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), Iasi, Romania, 28–30 June 2015.
14. Szafranski, G.; Czyba, R.; Janusz, W.; Blotnicki, W. Altitude estimation for the UAV’s applications based on sensors fusion algorithm. In Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), Atlanta, GA, USA, 28–31 May 2013.
15. Dandois, J.P.; Olano, M.; Ellis, E.C. Optimal Altitude, Overlap, and Weather Conditions for Computer Vision UAV Estimates of Forest Structure. Remote Sens. 2015, 7, 13895–13920. [CrossRef]
16. Kumar, G.A.; Patil, A.K.; Patil, R.; Park, S.S.; Chai, Y.H. A LiDAR and IMU Integrated Indoor Navigation System for UAVs and Its Application in Real-Time Pipeline Classification. Sensors 2017, 17, 1268. [CrossRef] [PubMed]
17. ANAC. Regras Sobre Drones—ANAC; ANAC Press: Brasilia, Brazil, 2017.
18. SkyDrones. Pelicano; SkyDrones: Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2017.
19. Pixhawk.org. Pixhawk Series Documentation; Pixhawk: Zurich, Switzerland, 2018.
20. Optoelectronics, Inc. SF11 Laser Altimeter Product Manual; Optoelectronics, INC.: Boca Raton, FL, USA, 2016.
21. LeddarTech. Leddar One Fact Sheet; LeddarTech: Quebec City, QC, Canada, 2017.
22. LeddarTech. Leddar Sensor Module User Guide; LeddarTech: Quebec City, QC, Canada, 2015.
23. Raspberry Pi Foundation. Raspberry Pi; Raspberry Pi Foundation: Cambridge, UK, 2017.
24. Long, J.P. Complete Guide for Python Programming: Quick & Easy Guide to Learn Python; CreateSpace: Scotts Valley, CA, USA, 2015.
25. TE Connectivity. MS5611-01BA03; TE Connectivity: Schaffhausen, Switzerland, 2017.
26. Liu, H.; Pang, G. Accelerometer for Mobile Robot Positioning. IEEE Trans. Ind. Appl. 2017, 37, 812–819. [CrossRef]
27. Aishwarya, B.B.; Archana, G.; Umayal, C. Agriculture robotic vehicle based pesticide sprayer with efficiency optimization. In Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Technological Innovations in ICT for Agriculture and Rural Development, TIAR, Chennai, India, 10–12 July 2015.
28. Hahn, B.H.; Valentine, D.T. Essential MATLAB for Engineers and Scientists, 6th ed.; Academic Press Elsevier: London, UK, 2017; ISBN 978-0-08-100877-5.