An in situ measurement of flow field of river based on four-rotor UAV

DOI

10.2991/icreet-16.2017.22How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), Flow field, Multi-scale, Optical flow

Abstract

An in situ measurement method of flow field by four-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is proposed, which is mainly based on the following considerations: (1) Four-rotor UAV is a highly integrated image acquisition tool; (2) The operation is easy and the price is cheap; (3) It has good adaptability to complex environment. A multi-scale optical flow analysis method is developed to estimate the in-situ flow field of the river surface. Experiment results show that under certain conditions, the four-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle can achieve in situ river surface flow field measurement.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yu Zhang
AU  - Qinghui Jiang
PY  - 2017/03
DA  - 2017/03
TI  - An in situ measurement of flow field of river based on four-rotor UAV
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 4th International Conference on Renewable Energy and Environmental Technology (ICREET 2016)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 118
EP  - 123
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icreet-16.2017.22
DO  - 10.2991/icreet-16.2017.22
ID  - Zhang2017/03
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