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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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Autores principales: Esakki, Balasubramanian, Ganesan, Surendar, Mathiyazhagan, Silambarasan, Ramasubramanian, Kanagachidambaresan, Gnanasekaran, Bhuvaneshwaran, Son, Byungrak, Park, Su Woo, Choi, Jae Sung
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Publicado: MDPI 2018
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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/).
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Son, Byungrak
Park, Su Woo
Choi, Jae Sung
Design of Amphibious Vehicle for Unmanned Mission in Water Quality Monitoring Using Internet of Things
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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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