Rapid Evaluation Model of Endurance Performance and Its Application for Agricultural UAVs
, Bo Long 1, Han Wu 1, Xiaodan Hu 1, Xu Wei 1, Zhixun Zhang 1, Lin Chai 2, Jindian Xie 3 and Huilan Mei 1,*
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
This article studies an interesting problem. However, it could significantly benefit from improving the English language and style. I highly recommend the respected authors review the paper multiple times before submitting it.
The respected authors are recommended to provide the full forms of the abbreviations based on the appearance in the paper.
Please avoid long sentences. Lengthy and convoluted sentences make the text hard to read.
There are so many figures with very low qualities, for example, some of them are blurry, some of them are hard to read, and some of them have different formats.
Please make sure that you are using the same font across the manuscript. There exist different font types in the current version of the manuscript.
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Reviewer 2 Report
The phrase in the title “rotor plant protection unmanned aerial vehicles” is very hard to interpret and should be revised.
In the abstract it starts with “rotor plant protection UAVs”, but what this is not described. This should be described first, as this is not a common term of which we can expect readers to know.
The entire paper needs to be revised for English grammar and flow.
The use of the word ‘model’ is repetitive and therefore consider alternatives.
Instead of ‘plant protection’ use agricultural UAVs, as you do in the 3rd sentence, throughout the paper.
Quadcopters are rarely used in ‘agriculture’, rather large Hexa or Octo copters. Is it useful to use smaller Quad system for this type of study?
Would it be possible to include some consideration of flight speed and how that impacts battery usage? Hovering is typically the worst case scenario for flight time, with about 8-10 m/s providing the max distance to battery use (but not sure for time). I would guess that 4 m/s provides more flight time than 0 m/s, but 10 m/s is slightly reduced, and greatly reduced at any speed above that.
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