FlowDrone: Wind Estimation and Gust Rejection on UAVs Using Fast-Response Hot-Wire Flow Sensors
Nathaniel Simon,Allen Z. Ren,Alexander Piqué,David Snyder,Daphne Barretto,Marcus Hultmark,Anirudha Majumdar,Nathaniel Simon,Allen Z. Ren,Alexander Piqué,David Snyder,Daphne Barretto,Marcus Hultmark,Anirudha Majumdar
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are finding use in applications that place increasing emphasis on robustness to external disturbances including extreme wind. However, traditional multirotor UAV platforms do not directly sense wind; conventional flow sensors are too slow, insensitive, or bulky for widespread integration on UAVs. Instead, drones typically observe the effects of wind indirectly throu...
