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We present preliminary experiments of an aerial deployment system for environmental sensors with autorotative soft-landing. Key problems associated with this task are discussed, including design of the sensor modules, release mechanism and telemetry system. We evaluate performance of the initial proof-of-concept system and show that this approach to sensor deployment is viable.
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The authors would like to thank Craig Freakley and Stefan Harber for their assistance with this work.
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Pounds, P., Potie, T., Kendoul, F., Singh, S., Jurdak, R., Roberts, J. (2016). Automatic Distribution of Disposable Self-Deploying Sensor Modules. In: Hsieh, M., Khatib, O., Kumar, V. (eds) Experimental Robotics. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, vol 109. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23778-7_35
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