Robotic Sensor Networks for Environmental Monitoring

Robotic Sensor Networks composed of robots and wireless sensing devices hold the potential to revolutionize environmental sciences by enabling researchers to collect data across expansive environments, over long, sustained periods of time. We report progress on building such systems for two applications. The first application is on monitoring invasive fish (common carp) in inland lakes. In the second application, the robots act as data mules and collect data from sparsely deployed wireless sensors.