Environmental monitoring using autonomous vehicles: a survey of recent searching techniques.

Bayat B; Crasta N; Crespi A; Pascoal AM; Ijspeert A

doi:10.1016/j.copbio.2017.01.009

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Environmental monitoring using autonomous vehicles: a survey of recent searching techniques.

Bayat B Biorobotics Laboratory (BioRob), Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. Electronic address: behzad.bayat@epfl.ch.
Crasta N Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR), Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal.
Crespi A Biorobotics Laboratory (BioRob), Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Pascoal AM Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR), Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal.
Ijspeert A Biorobotics Laboratory (BioRob), Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.

2017-03-04

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Current opinion in biotechnology. - 2017

English Autonomous vehicles are becoming an essential tool in a wide range of environmental applications that include ambient data acquisition, remote sensing, and mapping of the spatial extent of pollutant spills. Among these applications, pollution source localization has drawn increasing interest due to its scientific and commercial interest and the emergence of a new breed of robotic vehicles capable of operating in harsh environments without human supervision. The aim is to find the location of a region that is the source of a given substance of interest (e.g. a chemical pollutant at sea or a gas leakage in air) using a group of cooperative autonomous vehicles. Motivated by fast paced advances in this challenging area, this paper surveys recent advances in searching techniques that are at the core of environmental monitoring strategies using autonomous vehicles.

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