Design and Development of Shrouded Quadrotor and Application in Remote Sensing

摘要

The news of disasters were reported frequently, including earth quake, typhoon, flooding, etc. The local situation at the disasters is the most important information to be known by the rescue personnel. It is proved as an effective method even better than satellite and manned aircraft to utilize unmanned vehicle to transfer images from the disaster area to collect more information before and during the action of salvage. However, most unmanned vehicle of multi-axis rotors can't sustain strong wind and raining weathers, which will be limited in its utilization during the investigation. This research is aimed to develop a shrouded quadrotor which may be used in a certain circumstance of wind and rain by proving its performance from the designed 5-grade wind and rain condition. This can be used in the future disaster prevention, monitoring, ocean/forest data collection and protection, and reconnaissance/broadcast from many disaster areas, and enhance the performance of rescuing action.