TY - GEN
T1 - A dual-use unmanned aerial system for precision agriculture and search and rescue applications
AU - Weber, Adam
AU - Lauer, Nathan
AU - Brady, Jesse
AU - Branyan, Callie
AU - Goodstein, Mack
AU - Gupta, Ateev
AU - Katona, Brian
AU - Katzman, Jonathan
AU - Krause, Joel
AU - Siburt, Matthew
AU - Smith, Melissa
AU - Szczubelek, Jeff
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc, AIAA. All rights reserved.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - This paper presents the design, construction, testing, and results of the project assigned to the 2014 NASA Langley Research Center Aeronautics Academy. The Academy was tasked with delivering one Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) capable of performing both Search and Rescue (SAR) and Precision Agriculture (PA) missions. The aircraft was constructed using primarily Commercial off-the-Shelf (COTS) electronics and flight hardware housed in a custom-fabricated airframe. The UAS, named TIGRESS (Technology in Ground Rescue and Environmental Stress Sensing) is capable of long-endurance autonomous flight, live video streaming, autonomous detections of persons, creation of Normalized Density Vegetation Index (NDVI) maps, and has completed four successful flights. The results of the flight tests, the design, and the construction methods are presented. Additionally, recommendations for further tests are presented.
AB - This paper presents the design, construction, testing, and results of the project assigned to the 2014 NASA Langley Research Center Aeronautics Academy. The Academy was tasked with delivering one Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) capable of performing both Search and Rescue (SAR) and Precision Agriculture (PA) missions. The aircraft was constructed using primarily Commercial off-the-Shelf (COTS) electronics and flight hardware housed in a custom-fabricated airframe. The UAS, named TIGRESS (Technology in Ground Rescue and Environmental Stress Sensing) is capable of long-endurance autonomous flight, live video streaming, autonomous detections of persons, creation of Normalized Density Vegetation Index (NDVI) maps, and has completed four successful flights. The results of the flight tests, the design, and the construction methods are presented. Additionally, recommendations for further tests are presented.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85088196500
U2 - 10.2514/6.2016-0743
DO - 10.2514/6.2016-0743
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85088196500
SN - 9781624103889
T3 - AIAA Infotech @ Aerospace Conference
BT - AIAA Infotech @ Aerospace Conference
PB - American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc, AIAA
T2 - AIAA Infotech @ Aerospace Conference, 2016
Y2 - 4 January 2016 through 8 January 2016
ER -