Networks of Robots and Sensors for Underwater Monitoring
Event details
| Date | 14.12.2009 |
| Hour | 16:15 |
| Speaker | Carrick Detweiler, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Distributed Robotics |
| Location |
GR B3 30
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
More than 70% of our planet is covered by water. To better understand our world and the impact of global warming on the world's oceans, lakes and rivers, we must better understand the underwater environment. Underwater operations, however, are much more difficult than their land-based counterparts, due in large part to the challenges of collecting and monitoring data underwater.
This talk will present a system of underwater sensors and robots which aim to ease data collection and monitoring in an underwater environment. This system is easily deployable, self-localizes to
provide meaningful geographic information to the sensor readings , provides low-bandwidth, and uses real-time feedback. We will discuss the system architecture, the algorithms required to control the system, and our experimental data from several field deployments.
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