TY - CONF A1 - Neumann, Patrick P. A1 - Hirschberger, Paul A1 - Bartholmai, Matthias A2 - Holl, H. T1 - Aerial Chemical-Trail Detection and Localization T2 - 37th Danubia - Adria Symposium on Advances in Experimental Mechanics: Extendet abstracts N2 - This paper presents first advances in the area of aerial chemical trail following. For that purpose, we equipped a palm-size aerial robot, based on the Crazyflie 2.0 quadrocopter, with a small lightweight metal oxide gas sensor for measuring evaporated ethanol from chemical trails. To detect and localize the chemical trail, a novel detection criterion was developed that uses only relative changes in the transient phase of the sensor response, making it more robust in its application. We tested our setup in first crossing-trail experiments showing that our flying ant robot is able to correlate an odor hit with the chemical trail within 0.14 m. Principally, this could enable aerial chemical trail following in the future. T2 - 37th Danubia - Adria Symposium on Advances in Experimental Mechanics CY - Linz, Austria DA - 21.09.2021 KW - Nano aerial robot KW - Trail following KW - Trail detection KW - Localization PY - 2021 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bam/frontdoor/index/index/docId/53409 AN - OPUS4-53409 SN - 978-3-9504997-0-4 VL - 2021 SP - 39 EP - 40 AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany