Constanca Rosa, scientist at Imperial College London, prepares the MEDUSA drone for take off. Image: Empa
Constanca Rosa, scientist at Imperial College London, prepares the MEDUSA drone for take off. Image: Empa - A new dual drone can both fly and land on water to take aquatic samples and monitor water quality, for example. The drone was developed by researchers at Imperial College London and Empa and recently tested together with researchers at the aquatic research institute Eawag for the first time on Lake Zurich. The MEDUSA drone at lake Zurich is ready for her test flight. Image: Empa - In the process, the "dual-robot" drone successfully examined the water for signs of microorganisms and algal blooms that can pose a threat to human health; in future, it could be used to monitor climate indicators such as temperature changes in Arctic waters. The researchers developed the drone to make monitoring drones faster and more versatile in aquatic environments. Called the "Multi-Environment Dual Robot for Underwater Sample Acquisition", or MEDUSA in short, its unique design could also facilitate monitoring and maintenance of offshore infrastructure such as subsea pipelines and floating wind turbines.
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