SWaP-Constrained UAV-deployable Water-Level Sensor (SCUWLS)

UAV Deployable Stage Height Sensor with Magnetic Docking Mechanism

This work is dicussed in two papers:

1. Md Asifuzzaman Khan, Muhammad Usman Khan, Amanda Sarka, P. G. Tien Tran, Michelle Eigbe, Austin R. J. Downey, Jason D. Bakos, Erick Blasche, and Jasim Imran. Energy budget analysis of swap-constrained uav-deployable water-level sensors with varying sampling intervals and idle currents. In SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing 2026. SPIE, 2026
2. Corinne Smith, Joud Satme, Jacob Martin, Austin R.J. Downey, Nikolaos Vitzilaios, and Jasim Imran. UAV rapidly-deployable stage sensor with electro-permanent magnet docking mechanism for flood monitoring in undersampled watersheds. HardwareX, 12:e00325, oct 2022. doi:10.1016/j.ohx.2022.e00325.

Hardware

Figure 1: The "Georgetown Version 0.5" of the sensor, showing (a) the assembled sensor package, and (b) a cross-section view of the sensor.

Figure 2: Sensors deployed for continuous monitoring in the Charleston, SC area.

Figure 3: Drone delivering a sensor package underneath a structure using Electro Parmanent Magnet docking mechanism.

Versions

V0

1. Data logging saved onto SD card
2. Battery monitoring
3. Solar load sharing
4. Measures stage, temperature, pressure, humidity
5. EPM with wireless toggling to attach under structures

V1 (projected)

1. Adaptive sampling algorithm
2. Wireless data transfer with GUI
3. Camera integration

Licensing and Citation

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Cite as:

@Misc{ARTSLabSwapConstrainedUav,
author = {{ARTS-L}ab},
howpublished = {GitHub},
title = {{SWaP-Constrained UAV-deployable Water-Level Sensor (SCUWLS)}},
groups = {{ARTS-L}ab},
url = {https://github.com/ARTS-Laboratory/SWaP-Constrained-UAV-deployable-Water-Level-Sensor},
}

https://github.com/ARTS-Laboratory/UAV-Deployable-Stage-Height-Sensor