Plug-and-play Radiation Sensor Components for Unmanned Aerial System Platform
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-6-2018
Publication Title
Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry
Volume
318
Issue
3
First page number:
1797
Last page number:
1803
Abstract
Mobile radiation sensing techniques for surge deployment and wide area search are important for nuclear security applications. Radiation sensors were developed for the use with robotic platforms of unmanned aerial systems (UAS). Ambient temperature neutron and gamma CLYC sensor and high resolution CZT gamma sensor were integrated into the UAS as plug-and-play interchangeable components allowing easy attachment to a robot in field conditions. The time and position data were added via Robot Operating System to measured intensities of photon peaks and neutron rates enabling the input for the UAS flight control. The contour mapping of a radiation area by multiple UAS was simulated.
Keywords
Unmanned aerial system; CLYC; CZT; Plug-and-play components; Radiation monitoring; Robot Operating System
Disciplines
Radiochemistry
Language
English
Repository Citation
Kazemeini, M.,
Cook, Z.,
Lee, J.,
Barzilov, A.,
Yim, W.
(2018).
Plug-and-play Radiation Sensor Components for Unmanned Aerial System Platform.
Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 318(3),
1797-1803.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10967-018-6233-2