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Abstract: The
commercial unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) market is dominated by vehicles designed
specifically for photography, with few UAVs possessing sensing capabilities beyond
vision or thermal imaging. While relatively affordable and readily available, these UAVs
have limited effectiveness in the field of emergency response. These existing UAVs,
however, can be improved through sensor ... read moreintegration to make them applicable to emergency
response. The focus of this thesis is to develop a UAV system designed for disasters
involving radiation. This is done by combining radiation detection, imaging, and a
global positioning system (GPS) with a commercial UAV to create a vehicle that can
assess the affected region following a potentially radioactive incident. The challenges
associated with using low cost commercial UAVs in disaster assessment, including data
transmission range, endurance, payload, and control range, were also
investigated.
Thesis (M.S.)--Tufts University,
2017.
Submitted to the Dept. of Mechanical
Engineering.
Advisor: Karen
Panetta.
Committee: William Messner, and Jason
Rife.
Keywords: Remote sensing, and Mechanical
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