TY - GEN
T1 - Towards mixed-initiative, multi-robot field experiments
T2 - 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems: Celebrating 50 Years of Robotics, IROS'11
AU - Das, Jnaneshwar
AU - Maughan, Thom
AU - McCann, Mike
AU - Godin, Mike
AU - O'Reilly, Tom
AU - Messié, Monique
AU - Bahr, Fred
AU - Gomes, Kevin
AU - Py, Frédéric
AU - Bellingham, James G.
AU - Sukhatme, Gaurav S.
AU - Rajan, Kanna
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - With the advent of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and other mobile platforms, marine robotics have had substantial impact on the oceanographic sciences. These systems have allowed scientists to collect data over temporal and spatial scales that would be logistically impossible or prohibitively expensive using traditional ship-based measurement techniques. Increased dependence of scientists on such robots has permeated scientific data gathering with future field campaigns involving these platforms as well as on entire infrastructure of people, processes and software, on shore and at sea. Recent field experiments carried out with a number of surface and underwater platforms give clues to how these technologies are coalescing and need to work together. We highlight one such confluence and describe a future trajectory of needs and desires for field experiments with autonomous marine robotic platforms. Our 2010 interdisciplinary experiment in the Monterey Bay involved multiple platforms and collaborators with diverse science goals. One important goal was to enable situational awareness, planning and collaboration before, during and after this large-scale collaborative exercise. We present the overall view of the experiment and describe an important shore-side component, the Oceanographic Decision Support System (ODSS), its impact and future directions leveraging such technologies for field experiments.
AB - With the advent of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and other mobile platforms, marine robotics have had substantial impact on the oceanographic sciences. These systems have allowed scientists to collect data over temporal and spatial scales that would be logistically impossible or prohibitively expensive using traditional ship-based measurement techniques. Increased dependence of scientists on such robots has permeated scientific data gathering with future field campaigns involving these platforms as well as on entire infrastructure of people, processes and software, on shore and at sea. Recent field experiments carried out with a number of surface and underwater platforms give clues to how these technologies are coalescing and need to work together. We highlight one such confluence and describe a future trajectory of needs and desires for field experiments with autonomous marine robotic platforms. Our 2010 interdisciplinary experiment in the Monterey Bay involved multiple platforms and collaborators with diverse science goals. One important goal was to enable situational awareness, planning and collaboration before, during and after this large-scale collaborative exercise. We present the overall view of the experiment and describe an important shore-side component, the Oceanographic Decision Support System (ODSS), its impact and future directions leveraging such technologies for field experiments.
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U2 - 10.1109/IROS.2011.6048826
DO - 10.1109/IROS.2011.6048826
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84455188447
SN - 9781612844541
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
SP - 3132
EP - 3139
BT - IROS'11 - 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
Y2 - 25 September 2011 through 30 September 2011
ER -