Robot Boats as a Mobile Aquatic Sensor Network - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

Robot Boats as a Mobile Aquatic Sensor Network

Kian Hsiang Low, Gregg Podnar, Stephen B. Stancliff, John M. Dolan, and Alberto Elfes
Workshop Paper, IPSN '09 Workshop on Sensor Networks for Earth and Space Science Applications (ESSA '09), April, 2009

Abstract

This paper describes the Multilevel Autonomy Robot Telesupervision Architecture (MARTA), an architecture for supervisory control of a heterogeneous fleet of networked unmanned autonomous aquatic surface vessels carrying a payload of environmental science sensors. This architecture allows a land-based human scientist to effectively supervise data gathering by multiple robotic assets that implement a web of widely dispersed mobile sensors for in-situ study of physical, chemical or biological processes in water or in the water/atmosphere interface

BibTeX

@workshop{Low-2009-10196,
author = {Kian Hsiang Low and Gregg Podnar and Stephen B. Stancliff and John M. Dolan and Alberto Elfes},
title = {Robot Boats as a Mobile Aquatic Sensor Network},
booktitle = {Proceedings of IPSN '09 Workshop on Sensor Networks for Earth and Space Science Applications (ESSA '09)},
year = {2009},
month = {April},
keywords = {telesupervision,ASV,USV,sensor web,inference grids,log-Gaussian process},
}