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dc.contributor.authorMesas Carrascosa, Francisco Javier
dc.contributor.authorVerdú Santano, Daniel
dc.contributor.authorPérez Porras, Fernando
dc.contributor.authorMeroño de Larriva, José Emilio
dc.contributor.authorGarcía-Ferrer Porras, Alfonso
dc.date.accessioned2017-11-17T10:53:39Z
dc.date.available2017-11-17T10:53:39Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10396/15459
dc.description.abstractConcentrated solar power (CSP) plants are increasingly gaining interest as a source of renewable energy. These plants face several technical problems and the inspection of components such as absorber tubes in parabolic trough concentrators (PTC), which are widely deployed, is necessary to guarantee plant efficiency. This article presents a system for real-time industrial inspection of CSP plants using low-cost, open-source components in conjunction with a thermographic sensor and an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The system, available in open-source hardware and software, is designed to be employed independently of the type of device used for inspection (laptop, smartphone, tablet or smartglasses) and its operating system. Several UAV flight missions were programmed as follows: flight altitudes at 20, 40, 60, 80, 100 and 120 m above ground level; and three cruising speeds: 5, 7 and 10 m/s. These settings were chosen and analyzed in order to optimize inspection time. The results indicate that it is possible to perform inspections by an UAV in real time at CSP plants as a means of detecting anomalous absorber tubes and improving the effectiveness of methodologies currently being utilized. Moreover, aside from thermographic sensors, this contribution can be applied to other sensors and can be used in a broad range of applications where real-time georeferenced data visualization is necessary.es_ES
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dc.language.isoenges_ES
dc.publisherMDPIes_ES
dc.rightshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/es_ES
dc.sourceSensors 17(6), 1329 (2017)es_ES
dc.subjectUAVes_ES
dc.subjectMonitoringes_ES
dc.subjectOpen hardwarees_ES
dc.subjectConcentrated solar poweres_ES
dc.titleThe Development of an Open Hardware and Software System Onboard Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to Monitor Concentrated Solar Power Plantses_ES
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlees_ES
dc.relation.publisherversionhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s17061329es_ES
dc.rights.accessRightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesses_ES


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