Retrieving physical items with a sUAS is likely the least common use-case. Despite its rarity in published literature, this use-case has the potential to improve areas tasks such as crop sampling. To ground-truth an area in a field a crop consultant would need to physically walk to that location and retrieve a sample of the plant. With sUAS, this process could be streamlined to where a sUAS is sent to retrieve the sample in place of someone walking to the location. This improvement in sampling efficiency will allow more samples to be collected within an allotted time, therefore increasing the frequency of confirmed plant conditions.
Our work has been focused on using sUAS for remote sensing, so this use-case of using a sUAS to retrieve physical items goes beyond our current body of knowledge. If you have expertise in this area and would like to build this section, please contact us to contribute.
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