Back to Search
Start Over
Development of a Near Ground Remote Sensing System
- Source :
- Sensors, Vol 16, Iss 5, p 648 (2016), Sensors; Volume 16; Issue 5; Pages: 648, Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- MDPI AG, 2016.
-
Abstract
- Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have shown great potential in agriculture and are increasingly being developed for agricultural use. There are still a lot of experiments that need to be done to improve their performance and explore new uses, but experiments using UAVs are limited by many conditions like weather and location and the time it takes to prepare for a flight. To promote UAV remote sensing, a near ground remote sensing platform was developed. This platform consists of three major parts: (1) mechanical structures like a horizontal rail, vertical cylinder, and three axes gimbal; (2) power supply and control parts; (3) onboard application components. This platform covers five degrees of freedom (DOFs): horizontal, vertical, pitch, roll, yaw. A stm32 ARM single chip was used as the controller of the whole platform and another stm32 MCU was used to stabilize the gimbal. The gimbal stabilizer communicates with the main controller via a CAN bus. A multispectral camera was mounted on the gimbal. Software written in C++ language was developed as the graphical user interface. Operating parameters were set via this software and the working status was displayed in this software. To test how well the system works, a laser distance meter was used to measure the slide rail’s repeat accuracy. A 3-axis vibration analyzer was used to test the system stability. Test results show that the horizontal repeat accuracy was less than 2 mm; vertical repeat accuracy was less than 1 mm; vibration was less than 2 g and remained at an acceptable level. This system has high accuracy and stability and can therefore be used for various near ground remote sensing studies.
- Subjects :
- 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
aerial imaging
Computer science
Controller (computing)
UAV
Multispectral image
0211 other engineering and technologies
02 engineering and technology
Degrees of freedom (mechanics)
Gimbal
lcsh:Chemical technology
01 natural sciences
Biochemistry
Article
Analytical Chemistry
CAN bus
Software
simulation platform
lcsh:TP1-1185
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Instrumentation
Simulation
021101 geological & geomatics engineering
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Remote sensing
business.industry
slideways
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Agriculture
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14248220
- Volume :
- 16
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Sensors
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....25d8692037b51538b52cb5c53db9f3a1