Development of a Long-Range and Light-Weight Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (AUAV) and Instrument Platform for the Global Albedo Project

为全球 Albedo 项目开发远程轻型自主无人机 (AUAV) 和仪器平台

• 批准号: 0320802
• 负责人: Veerabhadran Ramanathan
• 金额: $ 52.56万
• 依托单位: University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-08-15 至 2007-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0320802&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Development; Long; Range; Light; Weight

Ramanathan and Kosmatka, UCSDATM 0320802This Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) development grant will support the design, fabrication and field testing of long duration affordable ($50,000 - $75,000) Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (AUAV) that have long duration (greater than 1 day) and long range (about five thousand kilometers required for flights from Southern California to Hawaii) with light instrument payloads (less than 5kg). Such AUAVs are not currently available.The instruments to be flown include a condensation particle counter, optical particle counter, cloud droplet probe, pyranometer, mult-channel airborne radiometer, cloud condensational nucleus counter, digital video camera, data acquisition system and aerosol inlet. The data gathered by the AUAV and this suite of instruments will be the first long-term in-situ data on cloudy sky albedo, aerosols and cloud microphysics in a climatologically important region (the Pacific Ocean).Broader Impacts: The AUAV will have a major impact on the education and training of engineers and atmospheric scientists in the UCSD campus, in particular because of the multi-disciplinary aspects of the experiment. The AUAV developed under this award will also benefit the entire atmospheric sciences community by the provision of a new and important observing capability relevant to research issues in weather and climate.

拉马纳坦和科斯马特卡，UCSDATM 0320802这项重大研究仪器(MRI)开发赠款将支持设计、制造和现场测试长期可负担(5万-7.5万美元)的自主无人机(AUAV)，这种飞行器具有长持续时间(大于1天)和远程(从南加州到夏威夷的飞行需要约5000公里)，具有轻型仪器有效载荷(小于5公斤)。即将飞行的仪器包括凝结粒子计数器、光学粒子计数器、云滴探头、高温计、多通道机载辐射计、云凝核计数器、数码摄像机、数据采集系统和气溶胶进气口。AUAV和这套仪器收集的数据将是关于气候重要地区(太平洋)多云天空反照率、气溶胶和云微物理的第一个长期现场数据。广泛的影响：AUAV将对加州大学圣地亚哥分校的工程师和大气科学家的教育和培训产生重大影响，特别是因为实验的多学科方面。根据该奖项开发的AUAV还将通过提供与天气和气候研究问题有关的新的重要观测能力，使整个大气科学界受益。