Prototype autonomous mini-buoy for use in a wireless networked, ocean surface sensor array

Vesecky, J.F.; Laws, K.; Petersen, Stig; Bazeghi, Cyrus; Wiberg, Donald M.

doi:10.1109/igarss.2007.4423981

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“…It can be found that most of the efforts are related to general ocean sensing and monitoring [ 4 , 23 , 40 , 44 , 46 , 47 , 50 , 53 , 55 – 57 ] and water quality monitoring [ 39 , 42 , 43 , 49 , 51 , 54 , 58 ]. Some specific efforts have been made for fish farm monitoring [ 45 , 48 ], coral reef monitoring [ 41 ], and marine shellfish monitoring [ 52 ].…”

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“…Some specific efforts have been made for fish farm monitoring [ 45 , 48 ], coral reef monitoring [ 41 ], and marine shellfish monitoring [ 52 ]. Some projects focus specific technologies or devices, e.g., buoys [ 23 , 40 , 53 , 57 , 59 ] which will be further discussed in Section 4.2, and energy saving and harvesting [ 4 , 43 , 48 , 50 , 52 , 56 – 59 ], discussed in details in Section 4.3.…”

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“…Most developed systems were only experimented in lab settings or indoor environments [ 39 , 45 , 46 , 52 , 55 ], some are tested in outdoor pools or small ponds/lakes [ 40 , 42 , 48 , 58 ], and a number of them have been tested or deployed in real marine or river environments [ 4 , 23 , 41 , 43 , 44 , 47 , 49 – 51 , 53 , 57 , 59 ].…”

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Applications of Wireless Sensor Networks in Marine Environment Monitoring: A Survey

Guobao

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Wang

2014

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With the rapid development of society and the economy, an increasing number of human activities have gradually destroyed the marine environment. Marine environment monitoring is a vital problem and has increasingly attracted a great deal of research and development attention. During the past decade, various marine environment monitoring systems have been developed. The traditional marine environment monitoring system using an oceanographic research vessel is expensive and time-consuming and has a low resolution both in time and space. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have recently been considered as potentially promising alternatives for monitoring marine environments since they have a number of advantages such as unmanned operation, easy deployment, real-time monitoring, and relatively low cost. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art technologies in the field of marine environment monitoring using wireless sensor networks. It first describes application areas, a common architecture of WSN-based oceanographic monitoring systems, a general architecture of an oceanographic sensor node, sensing parameters and sensors, and wireless communication technologies. Then, it presents a detailed review of some related projects, systems, techniques, approaches and algorithms. It also discusses challenges and opportunities in the research, development, and deployment of wireless sensor networks for marine environment monitoring.

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Applications of Wireless Sensor Networks in Marine Environment Monitoring: A Survey

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Wang

2014

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“…where P 0 and P ∞ are the limit performances for ω → 0 and ω → ∞ respectively,ω c is the "cutoff frequency" of the system, and the exponent λ measures how steep the transition from P 0 to P ∞ is. The values for these parameters obtained by fitting (11) to the results in Fig. 5 are given in Table I.…”

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Gradual Collective Upgrade of a Swarm of Autonomous Buoys for Dynamic Ocean Monitoring

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Mateo

Tokić

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OCEANS 2018 MTS/IEEE Charleston

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Swarms of autonomous surface vehicles equipped with environmental sensors and decentralized communications bring a new wave of attractive possibilities for the monitoring of dynamic features in oceans and other waterbodies. However, a key challenge in swarm robotics design is the efficient collective operation of heterogeneous systems. We present both theoretical analysis and field experiments on the responsiveness in dynamic area coverage of a collective of 22 autonomous buoys, where 4 units are upgraded to a new design that allows them to move 80% faster than the rest. This system is able to react on timescales of the minute to changes in areas on the order of a few thousand square meters. We have observed that this partial upgrade of the system significantly increases its average responsiveness, without necessarily improving the spatial uniformity of the deployment. These experiments show that the autonomous buoy designs and the cooperative control rule described in this work provide an efficient, flexible, and scalable solution for the pervasive and persistent monitoring of water environments.

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“…Since the 1980's, sensing platforms have been used in many different applications. Early sensing platforms were used for monitoring oceanic phenomenon [1][2][3][4][5]. Since then they have found many uses in different applications including environmental monitoring [6][7][8][9][10][11][12], consumer applications [13] and automotive [14].…”

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A microfabricated platform for three-dimensional microsystems

McCallum

Lahiji

Meregany

2011

2011 IEEE SENSORS Proceedings

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Prototype autonomous mini-buoy for use in a wireless networked, ocean surface sensor array

Cited by 11 publications

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Applications of Wireless Sensor Networks in Marine Environment Monitoring: A Survey

Applications of Wireless Sensor Networks in Marine Environment Monitoring: A Survey

Gradual Collective Upgrade of a Swarm of Autonomous Buoys for Dynamic Ocean Monitoring

A microfabricated platform for three-dimensional microsystems

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