Description
Talk: ‘Intelligent Management of a Fleet of Unmanned Aquatic Vehicles for the Monitoring of Surface Water Bodies (AQUATRONIC)’
The AQUATRONIC project proposes the development of a flexible, robust, and reactive fleet of Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASVs) to perform collaborative, real-time monitoring of surface water bodies. The ASVs will be equipped with sensors to measure the main physicochemical characteristics of the water (e.g. temperature, pH, conductivity, turbidity, redox potential, dissolved oxygen or nitrates) and withcommunication technology to transmit this data to the cloud (4G or 5G). Based on this and on model-based learning techniques, new algorithms will produce real-time maps of the variables of interest. The key characteristics of the proposed platform are real-timemonitoring, flexibility, robustness, reactiveness and collaboration. The goal is for the fleet to learn from the environment as it is deployed, determining the optimal laws of motion to detect and monitor with sufficient resolution the phenomena that affect the quality of aquatic ecosystems, thus enabling better management of water resources.
