Unmanned Aircraft System Swarm for Radiological and Imagery Data Collection

Date

2019-01-06

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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Abstract

The purpose of this project is to develop a multi-unmanned aerial system (UAS) to aid in forensic collection and analysis efforts in a post-nuclear blast, by providing a radiation gradient heat-map and live video overwatch of the area. A multidisciplinary team of 12 West Point cadets and six faculty advisors took on this challenge as part of a senior level academic capstone project....

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Unmanned Systems

Citation

Andrew Kopeikin, Samuel Heider, Dominic Larkin, Christopher Korpela, Ricardo Morales and James E. Bluman. "Unmanned Aircraft System Swarm for Radiological and Imagery Data Collection," AIAA 2019-2286. AIAA Scitech 2019 Forum. January 2019.