TY - GEN
T1 - Development of Ant-Plane UAVs for observation and scientific missions in Antarctica
AU - Higashino, Shin Ichiro
AU - Funaki, Minoru
AU - Hirasawa, Naohiko
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - A small low-cost UAV named "Ant-Plane UAV" has developed. It is intended to be used in Antarctica mainly for preliminary route investigation for ground expedition by taking aerial photographs or movies. The UAV system is required to be operated by nonspecialists in low temperature environment down to -20 degrees Celsius. It is also required to carry camera system and to fly more than 100km for route investigation. Development of the hardware and software of an autonomous flight control module and ground station software are emphasized, while off-the-shelf products which meet temperature requirement are used as much as possible for most of the parts to keep the development cost low. This paper shows details of the Ant-Plane UAV and the results of the preliminary demonstration flights in Japan.
AB - A small low-cost UAV named "Ant-Plane UAV" has developed. It is intended to be used in Antarctica mainly for preliminary route investigation for ground expedition by taking aerial photographs or movies. The UAV system is required to be operated by nonspecialists in low temperature environment down to -20 degrees Celsius. It is also required to carry camera system and to fly more than 100km for route investigation. Development of the hardware and software of an autonomous flight control module and ground station software are emphasized, while off-the-shelf products which meet temperature requirement are used as much as possible for most of the parts to keep the development cost low. This paper shows details of the Ant-Plane UAV and the results of the preliminary demonstration flights in Japan.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:35648992506
SN - 1563478935
SN - 9781563478932
T3 - Collection of Technical Papers - 2007 AIAA InfoTech at Aerospace Conference
SP - 482
EP - 489
BT - Collection of Technical Papers - 2007 AIAA InfoTech at Aerospace Conference
T2 - 2007 AIAA InfoTech at Aerospace Conference
Y2 - 7 May 2007 through 10 May 2007
ER -