Robot Boats as a Mobile Aquatic Sensor Network

This paper describes the Multilevel Autonomy Robot Telesupervision Architecture (MARTA), an architecture for supervisory control of a heterogeneous fleet of networked unmanned autonomous aquatic surface vessels carrying a payload of environmental science sensors. This architecture allows a land-based human scientist to effectively supervise data gathering by multiple robotic assets that implement a web of widely dispersed mobile sensors for in situ study of physical, chemical or biological processes in water or in the water/atmosphere interface.

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