Networked Architecture for Robotic Environmental Ocean Science Sensors - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

Networked Architecture for Robotic Environmental Ocean Science Sensors

Gregg Podnar, John M. Dolan, and Alberto Elfes
Workshop Paper, Sensing a Changing World Workshop, November, 2008

Abstract

This paper describes an architecture for environmental science sensors deployed on a fleet of networked unmanned extended-deployment autonomous ocean surface vessels. This architecture allows one land-based human scientist to effectively supervise data gathering through a web of widely-dispersed mobile sensors supported by multiple robotic assets to enable in situ study of phenomena at the interface between the ocean and the atmosphere. In addition to meteorological and ocean surface data, the system supports characterization of Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs).

BibTeX

@workshop{Podnar-2008-10127,
author = {Gregg Podnar and John M. Dolan and Alberto Elfes},
title = {Networked Architecture for Robotic Environmental Ocean Science Sensors},
booktitle = {Proceedings of Sensing a Changing World Workshop},
year = {2008},
month = {November},
publisher = {Centre for Geo- information, Wageningen University and Research Centre},
address = {Wageningen, The Netherlands},
}