Autonomous aquatic drone DRONEO

multi-sensorbathymetric monitoring

water ressources management, dredging and navigation aid The environmental management, submersion and quantitative and qualitative monitoring of available water resources issues reveal the need for accurate bathymetric, hydro-sedimentary and physico-chemical measurements. The techniques currently used for bathymetric and hydro-sedimentary monitoring are generally expensive, complex to produce and unsuited to frequent updating request. That is the reason why we developed Droneo, a Unmanned Surface Vehicle capable of carrying useful and suitable sensors for each specific application. This USV is an ideal tool to perform accurate, continuous and low cost management campaigns on various watersheds. Agricultural hill lake Water management and storage are major issues in the agriculture. Nowadays, many dams and hill lakes emerge and their maintenance raises several problematics. One of them is the silting management. The silting gradually decreases the reservoirs’ storage capacity : the loss is estimated to about 10%. Because of the lack of accurate data on the available water actual volume for irrigation, these reservoirs are not used at their maximum capacity. The use of Droneo to achieve low cost and accurate measurements can answer this problem. The system includes two major components : • The USV, a multi use generic platform that carries a set of selected sensors according to the applications and the environnements studied • The PC control with an adapted HMI and the command control laws that allow for both the preparation and the oversight of the mission during its automatic run. A safety lever is provided to manually regain control.