DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2017, 9(1):130-137 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2017.009

Autonóm repülő robotok alkalmazása vízelvezető csatornák felügyeletére

Anita Szabó
Subotica Tech - College of Applied Sciences, Marka Oreškovića 16, 24000, Subotica, Serbia; Faculty of Engineering, University of Pécs

Az utóbbi évtizedek éghajlati változásai már a Vajdaság területén is érezhető változásokat okoztak. A főleg mezőgazdasági iparra támaszkodó gazdaság számára fontos termőterületeket így egyes években belvíz, míg más években aszály sújtja. Ezen hatások ellensúlyozására a már kiépült csatorna hálózat hivatott. A csatornahálózat állapotának periodikus felügyelete annak mérete miatt igen erőforrás igényes. Kutatásunk a regionális öntöző és vízelvezető csatornák drónokkal való légi felügyeletét vizsgálja. Az autonóm robotok az utóbbi időben egyre olcsóbbak lettek. Ez részben azért történik, mert a felhasznált technológia egyre olcsóbb, másrészt a drónok betörtek a fogyasztói piacra is, ezért az áruk csökken. Ez lehetővé teszi a felhasználásukat kutatásokban vagy az iparban anélkül, hogy nagyobb anyagi ráfordítás nélkül. Ebben a kutatásban egy, a piacon elérhető drónok került felhasználásra a város szerte megtalálható vízelvezető csatornák felügyeletére. A készülék gyárilag tartalmaz beépített kamerát és vezetéknélküli internethez szükséges alkatrészeket. Ezek lehetővé teszik azt, hogy képek és videofelvételek készüljenek, valamint azok feltöltését az irányító eszközre. Szintén lehetséges élő video közvetítése az eszközre valós időben. A vezérlőeszköz lehet PC, tablet, vagy akár mobiltelefon is. A jövőbeni tervek között szerepel a kliensszoftver kiegészítése úgy, hogy az elkészült videót fel tudja tölteni a felhőbe későbbi megtekintésre. Továbbá más érzékelők is hozzáadhatók az eszközhöz.

Keywords: drónok, robot, víz, térképezés, monitorozás, felhő

Using Autonomous Flying Robots to Monitor Canals

The weather change of the recent decades caused changes that can be felt in Vojvodina, too. In this economy which mostly relies on agriculture, farmlands are afflicted with floods one year and drought in another. To balance these, canal systems are already built. Because of the size of the canal network, its periodic monitoring requires huge amount of work and recourses. Our research investigates possibility of aerial monitoring of regional irrigation and drainage canals using drones. Autonomous flying robots are becoming more and more popular in recent years. This is happening because the technology they are based on is getting less expensive, quadcopters have broken into the consumer market, so the manufacturing costs are constantly decreasing. This enables them to be used both in research and in the industry without having to pay huge amounts of money. In this research, a commercially available quadcopter has been used to monitor water canals around the city. By design, the device has a built-in camera and wireless internet capabilities. These allow to take photos, record video and upload them to the controlling device. It is also possible to stream the live video to the device in real time. The controlling device can be a personal computer, a tablet or even a mobile phone. It is planned that the client software be extended with capability to upload video and photos to the cloud for later reference. Also, other sensors can be added to the device, too.

Keywords: quadcopter, robot, water, mapping, monitoring, cloud

Published: March 31, 2017  Show citation

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Szabó, A. (2017). Using Autonomous Flying Robots to Monitor Canals. DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism, 9(1), 130-137. doi: 10.32725/det.2017.009
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