Remote-Controlled Monitoring of Flying Pests with an Electrostatic Insect Capturing Apparatus Carried by an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Remote-Controlled Monitoring of Flying Pests with an Electrostatic Insect Capturing Apparatus Carried by an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
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DOI：
10.3390/agriculture11020176
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发表时间：
2021-02-01
影响因子：
3.6
通讯作者：
Toyoda, Hideyoshi
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作者：
Kakutani, Koji;Matsuda, Yoshinori;Toyoda, Hideyoshi
该研究的目的是构建一种可应用于无人机（四轴飞行器）的静电昆虫捕捉装置。为此，使用带相反电荷的绝缘管构建了双电荷偶极电场屏（DD-screen），然后将其连接到无人机上。为了充电，管子的内表面涂有导电膏，然后连接到负或正电压发生器。管子的相反电荷在它们之间形成电场，并产生吸引力来捕获进入电场的昆虫。这里建造的 DD 屏幕足够轻，可以连接到无人机上。屏幕垂直于无人机运动方向悬挂在无人机上，以接收无人机运动时产生的纵向气流。它位于无人机机身下方1.8 m处，以避免旋转螺旋桨产生的向下滑流的影响。最终，无人机能够稳定飞行，具有足够的续航能力，并在飞行过程中捕获了8 m/s气流携带的空中昆虫。因此，这项研究为建立一种新方法提供了实验基础，通过操作无人机上的 DD 屏幕，在遥控飞行过程中对空中昆虫进行基于陷阱的监测。
The purpose of the study was to construct an electrostatic insect-capturing apparatus that could be applied to a drone (quadcopter). For this purpose, a double-charged dipolar electric field screen (DD-screen) was constructed using oppositely charged insulator tubes that was then attached to a drone. For charging, the inner surface of the tubes was coated with a conductive paste and then linked to a negative or positive voltage generator. The opposite charges of the tubes formed an electric field between them and created an attractive force to capture insects that entered the field. The DD-screen constructed here was sufficiently light to enable its attachment to a drone. The screen was hung from the drone perpendicular to the direction of drone movement, so as to receive the longitudinal airflow produced by the movement of the drone. It was positioned 1.8 m below the drone body to avoid the influence of the downward slipstream generated by the rotating propellers. Eventually, the drone was able to conduct a stable flight, with sufficient endurance, and captured airborne insects carried by an airflow of 8 m/s during the flight. This study, therefore, provides an experimental basis for establishing a new method for conducting trap-based monitoring of airborne insects during remote-controlled flight through operation of a DD-screen attached to a drone.