The Flying Anemometer: Researchers test hexacopter as wind sensor in world's first 3D wind tunnel
In order to test feasibility of using drones as a flying wind sensors, researchers from the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) have performed autonomous flight experiments in September 2015 with a custom designed hexacopter in the WindEEE Dome in London, Canada, the world's first 3D wind tunnel. A newly developed algorithm utilizes the drone's propellers to sense the wind speed.
The research is presented in the paper:
Tomić, Teodor and Schmid, Korbinian and Lutz, Philipp and Mathers, Andrew and Haddadin, Sami, The Flying Anemometer: Unified Estimation of Wind Velocity from Aerodynamic Power and Wrenches. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 9-14 Oct 2016, Daejeon, Korea
The Flying Anemometer: Researchers test hexacopter as wind sensor in world's first 3D wind tunnel
The Flying Anemometer: Researchers test hexacopter as wind sensor in world's first 3D wind tunnel
In order to test feasibility of using drones as a flying wind sensors, researchers from the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) have performed autonomous flight experiments in September 2015 with a custom designed hexacopter in the WindEEE Dome in London, Canada, the world's first 3D wind tunnel. A newly developed algorithm utilizes the drone's propellers to sense the wind speed.
The research is presented in the paper:
Tomić, Teodor and Schmid, Korbinian and Lutz, Philipp and Mathers, Andrew and Haddadin, Sami, The Flying Anemometer: Unified Estimation of Wind Velocity from Aerodynamic Power and Wrenches. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 9-14 Oct 2016, Daejeon, Korea
Credit: DLR (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
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