Parametric Conceptual Design of a UAV for Superficial Volcano Monitoring.
Pedro David Bravo Mosquera1; Álvaro Uribe Agudelo1; Fernando Catalano1; Álvaro Martins Abdalla1
1 Universidade de São Paulo - Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos
doi:10.20906/CPS/COB-2015-0679
Resumo
The unmanned aerial vehicles UAV have a Wide variety of applications, such as monitoring of wildfires, energy lines, human agglomerations, as well as to be used in military operations. Gas emission and geographical deformations in volcanoes are warnings of possible eruption; responsible entities in monitoring volcanoes have different methods to make accurate monitoring inside and outside the craters. One of these is done by continuous flights over the craters, making real-time videos to watch geomorphological changes; this is made with the help of manned aircrafts, risking the live of pilots and technical specialists in volcanoes. The aim of this work is the parametric conceptual design of an UAV for superficial volcano monitoring. Parametric study is done using statistical entropy. Seeking for the geometrical, inertial, aerodynamics and performances characteristics which allow the UAV accomplish the project requirements, applying constrains analysis, together with fuzzy algebra.
Palavras-chave: Design; UAV; Volcano Monitoring; Statistical entropy; Contrains analysis; fuzzy algebra