Experiments of Floatable UAV for Wave Dissipating Block Inspection
- DOI
- 10.2991/jrnal.2017.4.3.12How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Floatable UAV, environmental monitoring, coastal erosion, offshore structure monitoring
- Abstract
In this paper, we present our modification experience of making a UAV watertight and floatable. Then we present several experiments on taking pictures considering ocean monitoring in the sea near our campus. The watertight experiments are done from our school’s pier. In these experiments, we repeated to start flying the UAV from the sea surface and fall it down into the water several times. Using this UAV, we tested several experiments to take pictures of wave dissipating blocks at MIHO Island where beach line erosion is critical and many blocks are arranged to prevent waves from washing the shore. We can see the shoreline very clearly from more than 200m height as a macro image and also we can inspect the blocks looking around its stacks as well as approaching near the sea surface where waves break and wave splash washes the UAV.
- Copyright
- © 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - JOUR AU - Keisuke Watanabe AU - Koshi Utsunomiya AU - Kazuho Mitsumura AU - Shun Takasaki PY - 2017 DA - 2017/12/01 TI - Experiments of Floatable UAV for Wave Dissipating Block Inspection JO - Journal of Robotics, Networking and Artificial Life SP - 234 EP - 238 VL - 4 IS - 3 SN - 2352-6386 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/jrnal.2017.4.3.12 DO - 10.2991/jrnal.2017.4.3.12 ID - Watanabe2017 ER -