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SUMMARY:EESS talk - Student presentation on "Robotic gas sensing: challeng
 es and opportunities"
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DESCRIPTION:Chira Ercolani\, DISAL\nAbstract:\nHarmful  chemical compound
 s are released daily in warehouses\, chemical plants  and during environm
 ental emergencies. Their uncontrolled dispersion contributes to the pollut
 ion  of the atmosphere and poses a considerable threat to both human and
   animal lives. Scientific advances in the fields of robotics\, embedded
   systems and chemical sensing allow robotic assets equipped with gas sen
 sors to be employed in gas sensing missions. In  particular\, the employm
 ent of drones offers a promising research  direction because their versat
 ility of movement can capture the  tridimensional nature of the gas dispe
 rsion phenomenon.\nDuring  this talk\, I will discuss ways in which small
  aerial vehicles can be  employed in gas sensing missions. After describi
 ng our bespoke gas sensing setup\, I will draw  the attention to an impor
 tant tradeoff between exploration of the  environment and exploitation of
  sensed gas cues\, and I will explain how  adaptive sampling techniques t
 ry to maximize the outcome of a gas sensing mission. Finally\, I will comm
 ent on the  application of multi-robot systems to the field of gas sensin
 g with the  aim of speeding up urgent missions.\n\nShort Biography:\nChia
 ra Ercolani is a Ph.D. student at the Distributed Intelligent Systems and 
 Algorithms Laboratory at EPFL working on 3D gas source localization and di
 stribution mapping. She received her M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering with 
 a specialization in Digital Electronics and Computer Engineering in 2018 f
 rom EPFL\, and she carried out her Master Thesis at the Intelligent Roboti
 cs Group at NASA Ames Research Center. She received her B.Sc. in Biomedica
 l Engineering in 2015 from Politecnico di Milano. Her research interests i
 nclude environmental monitoring\, path planning\, embedded systems\, multi
 -robot systems and machine learning. \n 
LOCATION:GC B1 10 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==GC%20B1%2010 https://epfl.zo
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