Design and Characterization of Measurement Systems Based on Drone

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are becoming popular as carrier for several sensors and measurement systems, due to their low weight, small size, low cost and easy handling, which make them flexible and suitable in many measurement applications, mainly when the quantity to be measured is spread over a wide area or it lies in human-hostile environments. The tutorial introduces the architecture of the drone and show how the drone and its subsystems can be properly sized and characterized, according to the specification of the sensors and measurement systems that will be embedded on it. The drone equipped with the sensors must be thought as a measurement platform and needs a metrological characterization. The tutorial presents some measurement applications, and for such applications, the measurement chain is analyzed, and the influence of the flight parameters is taken into account to assess the measurement uncertainty. Did you know that the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society offers a variety of e-classes? Many of our e-classes allow you to earn CEUs and PHD credits. The e-class for this video tutorial can be accessed here: https://iln.ieee.org/public/contentde... The full list of available videos can be accessed here: https://loom.ly/fikwaQM Keywords: UAV design; mobile measurement instrument; UAV testing; test bench; UAV sensors