TY - GEN
T1 - Aquapod
T2 - 25th IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Robotics and Intelligent Systems, IROS 2012
AU - Dhull, Sandeep
AU - Canelon, Dario
AU - Kottas, Apostolos
AU - Dancs, Justin
AU - Carlson, Andrew
AU - Papanikolopoulos, Nikolaos
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Mobile robots are often proposed as a favorable substitute to human correspondence in emergency response, disaster relief, and environmental monitoring scenarios. In this work, the next iteration of the Aquapod is proposed as a method to facilitate collection of subsurface liquid samples in order to assess toxicity levels in a body of water. This amphibious small form-factor robot is equipped with a buoyancy control unit, detachable fluidic sampling unit, and a wide range of sensing and processing capabilities. The robot was designed to move and collect water samples to a maximum depth of ten meters. Its unique form of tumbling locomotion results in a versatile platform that can be used in both terrestrial and aquatic environments leveraging its high mobility-to-size ratio.
AB - Mobile robots are often proposed as a favorable substitute to human correspondence in emergency response, disaster relief, and environmental monitoring scenarios. In this work, the next iteration of the Aquapod is proposed as a method to facilitate collection of subsurface liquid samples in order to assess toxicity levels in a body of water. This amphibious small form-factor robot is equipped with a buoyancy control unit, detachable fluidic sampling unit, and a wide range of sensing and processing capabilities. The robot was designed to move and collect water samples to a maximum depth of ten meters. Its unique form of tumbling locomotion results in a versatile platform that can be used in both terrestrial and aquatic environments leveraging its high mobility-to-size ratio.
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U2 - 10.1109/IROS.2012.6385733
DO - 10.1109/IROS.2012.6385733
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84872345048
SN - 9781467317375
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
SP - 100
EP - 105
BT - 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2012
Y2 - 7 October 2012 through 12 October 2012
ER -