Astro

Gas-sensing drones that map clouds of harmful pollutants

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Astros are Autonomous, Sensing and Tetherless Networked Drones that were designed by Researchers from Rice University in collaboration with with fellow researchers form Baylor College of Medicine and Houston nonprofit Technology For All.

The networked drones were designed to detect and map out volatile organic compounds in the air. The pollutants which have the capacity to constitute different health hazards to humans are detected from air through the use of high-resolution mobile laser-spectroscopy.

ASTRO realizes data-driven sensing missions via on-line (without prior training) light-weight on-drone machine learning. Drone’s decisions and flight paths are adapted in real-time according to measured sensor data. source

The video below gives more information about the drones: