Wind Speed and Direction Detection by Means of Solid-state Anemometers Embedded on Small Quadcopters

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• 作者：P. Bruschi^a ; ^{p.bruschi@iet.unipi.it} ; M. Piotto^b ; F. Dell&rsquo ; Agnello^a ; J. Ware^c ; N. Roy^c
• 关键词：wind sensor ; quadcopter ; MEMS ; UAV
• 刊名：Procedia Engineering
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：168
• 期：Complete
• 页码：802-805
• 全文大小：339 K
• 卷排序：168

文摘

This work describes the application of a compact, MEMS-based, 2D anemometer to the estimation of a quadrotor's airspeed. Correcting for the vehicle's ground speed provided by internal GPS and inertial units allows this low cost, mobile platform to provide local wind speed estimates. A series of initial, bench-top tests were performed to characterize and calibrate the sensor, which is an improved version of a recently proposed and novel device. Additional full-scale wind tunnel experiments were performed with the sensor mounted on a fixed quadrotor to test the effect of the propellers on the sensor's performance.