Defesa de Dissertação de Mestrado – Fábio Henriques Mantelli – 16/4/2020
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| Defesa de Dissertação de Mestrado | |
| Aluno | Fábio Henriques Mantelli |
| Orientador | Prof. Alexandre Trofino Neto, Dr. – PPGEAS/UFSC |
| Data | 16/4/2020 (quinta-feira) – 14 h
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| Banca | Prof. Alexandre Trofino Neto, Dr. – DAS/UFSC (presidente);
Prof. Felipe Mendonça Pimenta, Dr. – CGOCN/CFM; Prof. Felipe Gomes de Oliveira Cabral, Dr. – DAS/UFSC; Prof. Marcelo de Lellis Costa de Oliveira, Dr. – DAS/UFSC. |
| Título | Multirotor UAV as a Platform for Acoustic Tomography of The Atmosphere |
| Abstract: In the process of wind resource assessment, detailed information about the wind and temperature profile of the site being assessed is desirable. This is specially true for airborne wind energy (AWE) systems, for which this information is relevant on determining the take-off and landing procedures and finding an optimal operating height of the systems. Current autonomous devices commercially available are expensive and can’t be employed in remote areas or can’t reach the desired height range for AWE applications. The present dissertation proposes a portable, reusabe, low-cost automated solution to measure the wind and temperature profile for AWE assessment applications. The solution consists on the usage of an Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) as an instrumentation platform of an Acoustic Atmosphere Tomography (AAT) device. A hardware and software architecture for the multirotor UAV-based AAT device is described to perform all of the functionalities required for it’s full continuous operation. The proposed AAT software is applied on an atmosphere model in accordance to the stipulated hardware setup. The results were compared to and presented accuracy performances close to or better than other similar UAV-based wind profilers. The dissertation results has shown that the proposed device has the potential to be accurate enough to be used as a weather observation instrument. | |
