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Design of Amphibious Vehicle for Unmanned Mission in Water Quality Monitoring Using Internet of Things
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gained significant attention in recent times due to their suitability for a wide variety of civil, military, and societal missions. Development of an unmanned amphibious vehicle integrating the features of a multi-rotor UAV and a hovercraft is the focus of the pr...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6210420/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30282939 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s18103318 |
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author | Esakki, Balasubramanian Ganesan, Surendar Mathiyazhagan, Silambarasan Ramasubramanian, Kanagachidambaresan Gnanasekaran, Bhuvaneshwaran Son, Byungrak Park, Su Woo Choi, Jae Sung |
author_facet | Esakki, Balasubramanian Ganesan, Surendar Mathiyazhagan, Silambarasan Ramasubramanian, Kanagachidambaresan Gnanasekaran, Bhuvaneshwaran Son, Byungrak Park, Su Woo Choi, Jae Sung |
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description | Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gained significant attention in recent times due to their suitability for a wide variety of civil, military, and societal missions. Development of an unmanned amphibious vehicle integrating the features of a multi-rotor UAV and a hovercraft is the focus of the present study. Components and subsystems of the amphibious vehicle are developed with due consideration for aerodynamic, structural, and environmental aspects. Finite element analysis (FEA) on static thrust conditions and skirt pressure are performed to evaluate the strength of the structure. For diverse wind conditions and angles of attack (AOA), computational fluid dynamic (CFD) analysis is carried out to assess the effect of drag and suitable design modification is suggested. A prototype is built with a 7 kg payload capacity and successfully tested for stable operations in flight and water-borne modes. Internet of things (IoT) based water quality measurement is performed in a typical lake and water quality is measured using pH, dissolved oxygen (DO), turbidity, and electrical conductivity (EC) sensors. The developed vehicle is expected to meet functional requirements of disaster missions catering to the water quality monitoring of large water bodies. |
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spelling | pubmed-62104202018-11-02 Design of Amphibious Vehicle for Unmanned Mission in Water Quality Monitoring Using Internet of Things Esakki, Balasubramanian Ganesan, Surendar Mathiyazhagan, Silambarasan Ramasubramanian, Kanagachidambaresan Gnanasekaran, Bhuvaneshwaran Son, Byungrak Park, Su Woo Choi, Jae Sung Sensors (Basel) Article Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gained significant attention in recent times due to their suitability for a wide variety of civil, military, and societal missions. Development of an unmanned amphibious vehicle integrating the features of a multi-rotor UAV and a hovercraft is the focus of the present study. Components and subsystems of the amphibious vehicle are developed with due consideration for aerodynamic, structural, and environmental aspects. Finite element analysis (FEA) on static thrust conditions and skirt pressure are performed to evaluate the strength of the structure. For diverse wind conditions and angles of attack (AOA), computational fluid dynamic (CFD) analysis is carried out to assess the effect of drag and suitable design modification is suggested. A prototype is built with a 7 kg payload capacity and successfully tested for stable operations in flight and water-borne modes. Internet of things (IoT) based water quality measurement is performed in a typical lake and water quality is measured using pH, dissolved oxygen (DO), turbidity, and electrical conductivity (EC) sensors. The developed vehicle is expected to meet functional requirements of disaster missions catering to the water quality monitoring of large water bodies. MDPI 2018-10-03 /pmc/articles/PMC6210420/ /pubmed/30282939 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s18103318 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Esakki, Balasubramanian Ganesan, Surendar Mathiyazhagan, Silambarasan Ramasubramanian, Kanagachidambaresan Gnanasekaran, Bhuvaneshwaran Son, Byungrak Park, Su Woo Choi, Jae Sung Design of Amphibious Vehicle for Unmanned Mission in Water Quality Monitoring Using Internet of Things |
title | Design of Amphibious Vehicle for Unmanned Mission in Water Quality Monitoring Using Internet of Things |
title_full | Design of Amphibious Vehicle for Unmanned Mission in Water Quality Monitoring Using Internet of Things |
title_fullStr | Design of Amphibious Vehicle for Unmanned Mission in Water Quality Monitoring Using Internet of Things |
title_full_unstemmed | Design of Amphibious Vehicle for Unmanned Mission in Water Quality Monitoring Using Internet of Things |
title_short | Design of Amphibious Vehicle for Unmanned Mission in Water Quality Monitoring Using Internet of Things |
title_sort | design of amphibious vehicle for unmanned mission in water quality monitoring using internet of things |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6210420/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30282939 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s18103318 |
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