| Autor: |
Yusef Haikal, Aaron T. Becker, Shreyas Poyrekar, Navid H. Jafari, Marcos Ibarra, Victor M. Baez |
| Rok vydání: |
2021 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
ICRA |
| DOI: |
10.1109/icra48506.2021.9561234 |
| Popis: |
Soil strength testing and collecting soil cores from wetlands is currently a slow, manual process that runs the risk of disturbing and contaminating soil samples. This paper describes a method using an instrumented dart deployed and retrieved by a drone for performing core sample tests in soft soils. The instrumented dart can simultaneously conduct free- fall penetrometer tests. A drone-mounted mechanism enables deploying and reeling in the dart for sample return or for multiple soil strength tests. Tests examine the effect of dart tip diameter and drop height on soil retrieval, and the requisite pull force to retrieve the samples. Further tests examine the dart’s ability to measure soil strength and penetration depth. Hardware trials demonstrate that the drone can repeatedly drop and retrieve a dart, and that the soil can be discretely sampled. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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