Jun 21 – 25, 2021
Clarion Congress Hotel Prague
Europe/Prague timezone
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#08-10 UAV prototype for localization and identification of radioactive contamination and emitters.

Jun 22, 2021, 3:00 PM
20m
LEO (Clarion Congress Hotel Prague)

LEO

Clarion Congress Hotel Prague

Oral presentation 08 Decommissioning, Dismantling and Remote Handling 08 Decommissioning, Dismantling and Remote Handling

Speaker

MORETTO, Sandra (Padova University)

Description

The Dragon (Drone for RAdiation detection of Gammas and Neutrons)
prototype aims at designing and developing an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
equipped with a detection system able to identify radioactive materials, spread
over an area or located in a specific position. The system is focused on the
localization of the unknown emitter and its subsequently identification.
The proposed prototype is made up of two easily interchangeable detection systems, one will be used as a counter while the second will be aimed to perform good-resolution gamma spectroscopy. Both solutions have neutron - gamma discrimination capability in order to be suitable for special nuclear materials (SNM) detection in gamma contamination background.
The data acquisition module is made up of a compact digitizer board (RedPitaya, sampling rate of 125 MHz and 14 bits of resolution.), a mini computer (Raspberry, for example). This combination allows to install an embedded operating system (e.g. Linux) that can run the necessary software for the Data Acquisition (DAQ), like the ABCD distributed DAQ.
Our contribution will be aimed to show a comprehensive characterization of the two detection systems, a medium size CLLB scintillation detector, and a large plastic scintillator, EJ-276, in order to assess their potential use in a UAV-based radiation monitoring system.

Primary authors

MORETTO, Sandra (Padova University) PINO ANDRADES, Felix Eduardo (University of Padova) Dr FONTANA, Cristiano Lino (Padova University) Dr NEBBIA, Giancarlo (INFN Padova) Dr FABRIS, Daniela (INFN Padova) Mr TURCATO, Matteo (INFN Padova) Dr BRUNELLI, Davide (Trento University) Dr PANCHERI, Lucio (Trento University) Prof. QUARANTA, Alberto (Trento University)

Presentation materials