Authors
Keisuke Watanabe, Koshi Utsunomiya, Kazuho Mitsumura, Shun Takasaki
Corresponding Author
Keisuke Watanabe
Available Online 1 December 2017.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.2991/jrnal.2017.4.3.12
Keywords
Floatable UAV, environmental monitoring, coastal erosion, offshore structure
monitoring
Abstract
In this paper, we present our modification experience of making a UAV watertight
and floatable. Then we present several experiments on taking pictures considering
ocean monitoring in the sea near our campus. The watertight experiments
are done from our school’s pier. In these experiments, we repeated to start
flying the UAV from the sea surface and fall it down into the water several
times. Using this UAV, we tested several experiments to take pictures of
wave dissipating blocks at MIHO Island where beach line erosion is critical
and many blocks are arranged to prevent waves from washing the shore. We
can see the shoreline very clearly from more than 200m height as a macro
image and also we can inspect the blocks looking around its stacks as well
as approaching near the sea surface where waves break and wave splash washes
the UAV.
Copyright
© 2013, the Authors. Published by ALife Robotics Corp. Ltd.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).