A symbiotic lenticular airship for WiSAR missions

  • Authors:

  • Eduardo Pinto;José Barata

  • Affiliations:

  • Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Departamento de Engenharia Electroténica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal;Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Departamento de Engenharia Electroténica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal

  • Venue:
  • ICAISC'12 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

This paper presents and describes an innovative cooperative symbiotic robotic system based in two types of unmanned air vehicles: A lenticular shaped airship that allows 3D omnidirectional movements with a big top area for solar energy harvesting and a group of micro-quad rotors using micro electric ducted fans. The solution presented could be used in missions as environmental, biodiversity monitoring, WiSAR missions, road monitoring, detection of forest fires, etc.