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Experimental Flights of Adaptive Patterns for Clouds Exploration with UAVs

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The evolution of cumulus clouds is still no fully understood by atmospheric scientists [1].

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  1. 1.

    This paper is a more complete and updated version of a former paper published in the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Las Vegas (USA), 2020.

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    Shown as a purple box in Fig. 5: such models implements the clouds microphysics MesoNH model, and require tens of hours of computation of dedicated clusters to be produced.

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Verdu, T. et al. (2021). Experimental Flights of Adaptive Patterns for Clouds Exploration with UAVs. In: Siciliano, B., Laschi, C., Khatib, O. (eds) Experimental Robotics. ISER 2020. Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics, vol 19. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71151-1_2

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