A Comparison of Two Alternative Types of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Indoor Spaces - 18502
- Texas A and M University, College Station, Texas (United States)
- Flyability SA (Switzerland)
- Perspective Robotics (Switzerland)
This paper examines two lesser known, but technological mature, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAVs) approaches to working in indoor spaces. Tethered UAVs reduce safety concerns by physically limiting the range of the UAV. The tether can provide other advantages including supplying long-term power, carrying heavier payloads, enabling uninterrupted communications, better performance in high winds, and providing more flexibility in viewpoints than an aerial mast. Caged UAVs reduce safety concerns by protecting the UAV, and its environment, form damage due to collisions or contact. The protective cage can offer other advantages including bracing or rolling the UAV over a surface to simply control or reduce energy, lessen wind resistance, and allow the UAV to inspect a structure at close, repeatable distances. The paper established the problems associated with flying UAVs in indoor spaces. It reviews the state of the practice for both tethered and caged UAVs, then compares the two approaches to traditional multi-rotor UAVs. The paper concludes that commercially available tethered and caged UAVs are useful and ready for immediate adoption. (authors)
- Research Organization:
- WM Symposia, Inc., PO Box 27646, 85285-7646 Tempe, AZ (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 22977781
- Report Number(s):
- INIS-US-20-WM-18502; TRN: US21V0409017826
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: WM2018: 44. Annual Waste Management Conference, Phoenix, AZ (United States), 18-22 Mar 2018; Other Information: Country of input: France; 26 refs.; Available online at: https://www.xcdsystem.com/wmsym/2018/index.html
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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