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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"autonomous sensing"”.
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Autonomous Sensing and Navigation in Challenging Environments Using Unmanned Air Vehicles in Single- and Multi-Agent Settings
… navigational versatility and ability to operate autonomously, serve as an intriguing platform on which to carry out advanced sensing operations in otherwise untraversable or prohibitively dangerous environments. The need for UAS to be able to autonomously navigate and explore their environments …
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Parsimonious Biosonar-Inspired Sensing for Navigation Near Natural Surfaces
Achieving autonomous in complex natural environments has the potential to transform society by bringing the benefits of automation from the confines of the factory floor to the outdoors. There, it could benefit areas such as environmental monitoring and clean-up, precision agriculture, delivery of …
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Trust and reputation in multi-modal sensor networks for marine environmental monitoring
… are emerging in order to enable remote autonomous sensing of our water systems and subsequently meet the demands for high temporal and spatial monitoring. In particular, advances in communication and sensor technology has provided a catalyst for progress in remote monitoring of our water …
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SHARC Buoy: Robust firmware design for a novel, low-cost autonomous platform for the Antarctic Marginal Ice Zone in the Southern Ocean
… understanding sea ice dynamics and increasing sensing capabilities in the Southern Ocean. The buoy was required to survive the Antarctic climate and contained a global positioning system, temperature sensor, digital barometer and inertial measurement unit to measure waves-in-ice. Power was …
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Machine learning and autonomous system for human gait analysis based on walk speed
… reduce hospital costs. Hence, the application of autonomous sensing systems to enhance everyday life of such population will be valuable and has been considered here. Recently, Microsoft Kinect v2 has been used for gait analysis systems, to perform data classification of gait pattern changes based …
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Cyber-physical data distillation in a sensor rich world
… Internet will be dominated by vast amount of sensing data. This thesis attacks a grand challenge in this vision: how to extract human-consumable information from such data? The prime contribution of this work is a framework called FusionSuite that facilitates the development of future …
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Solar energy harvesting and software enhancements for autonomous wireless smart sensor networks
… limited in the length of time they can operate autonomously. The frequent need to change batteries in the networks can drive up maintenance costs and diminish the advantage first realized with WSSs. Efforts have been made to minimize the power consumption of WSSs operating in SHM networks, but …
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Path planning and adaptive sampling in the coastal ocean
… the concurrent use of multiple mobile sensing platforms in unmanned missions is growing very rapidly. Opportunities for a paradigm shift in the science of autonomy involve the development of fundamental theories to optimally collect information, learn, collaborate and make decisions …
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Wake-up Radio based Approach to Low-Power and Low-Latency Communication in the Internet of Things
… by these nodes to carry out tasks such as sensing, data processing, and data communication. Of these, radio communication remains the primary battery consuming activity in wireless systems. Advances in MAC protocols have enabled significant lifetime improvements by putting the main …