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The Gas Sensing Drone with the Lowered and Lifted Measurement Platform
A serious factor that limits the environmental applications of drones is the disturbance of the air pollution concentration field by the drone propulsion system. This work presents a gas-sensing drone offering measurements that are unaffected by this phenomenon. The novel development was based on th...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9920096/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36772293 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23031253 |
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author | Szczurek, Andrzej Gonstał, Dawid Maciejewska, Monika |
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description | A serious factor that limits the environmental applications of drones is the disturbance of the air pollution concentration field by the drone propulsion system. This work presents a gas-sensing drone offering measurements that are unaffected by this phenomenon. The novel development was based on the idea that, during measurements, the sensing device should be spatially separated from a zone influenced by the drone’s rotors. To attain this goal, special equipment was designed that allows one to undock and lower the sensing device for measurement, lift it and dock for flight. The field experiments demonstrated the full functionality of the developed system and its superiority compared to a sensing platform mounted at the bottom of the drone. Higher measurement sensitivity and resolution were attained by lowering the sensing platform to the measurement point. This solution minimizes the rotor flow effect, ground effect, and pollution concentration field flattening. The test in real conditions confirmed that the designed construction assures drone stability. The presented technology may be an important step in developing effective mobile measurement tools that allow one to reach poorly accessible or dangerous places and perform measurements at a low cost and with high efficiency. |
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spelling | pubmed-99200962023-02-12 The Gas Sensing Drone with the Lowered and Lifted Measurement Platform Szczurek, Andrzej Gonstał, Dawid Maciejewska, Monika Sensors (Basel) Article A serious factor that limits the environmental applications of drones is the disturbance of the air pollution concentration field by the drone propulsion system. This work presents a gas-sensing drone offering measurements that are unaffected by this phenomenon. The novel development was based on the idea that, during measurements, the sensing device should be spatially separated from a zone influenced by the drone’s rotors. To attain this goal, special equipment was designed that allows one to undock and lower the sensing device for measurement, lift it and dock for flight. The field experiments demonstrated the full functionality of the developed system and its superiority compared to a sensing platform mounted at the bottom of the drone. Higher measurement sensitivity and resolution were attained by lowering the sensing platform to the measurement point. This solution minimizes the rotor flow effect, ground effect, and pollution concentration field flattening. The test in real conditions confirmed that the designed construction assures drone stability. The presented technology may be an important step in developing effective mobile measurement tools that allow one to reach poorly accessible or dangerous places and perform measurements at a low cost and with high efficiency. MDPI 2023-01-21 /pmc/articles/PMC9920096/ /pubmed/36772293 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23031253 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Szczurek, Andrzej Gonstał, Dawid Maciejewska, Monika The Gas Sensing Drone with the Lowered and Lifted Measurement Platform |
title | The Gas Sensing Drone with the Lowered and Lifted Measurement Platform |
title_full | The Gas Sensing Drone with the Lowered and Lifted Measurement Platform |
title_fullStr | The Gas Sensing Drone with the Lowered and Lifted Measurement Platform |
title_full_unstemmed | The Gas Sensing Drone with the Lowered and Lifted Measurement Platform |
title_short | The Gas Sensing Drone with the Lowered and Lifted Measurement Platform |
title_sort | gas sensing drone with the lowered and lifted measurement platform |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9920096/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36772293 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23031253 |
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