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In tunnel-like environments such as sewers, road tunnels and mines, a robot or team of networked mobile robots can provide monitoring services, surveillance or search and rescue. However, these scenarios pose multiple challenges from the robotics and from the communication points of view. Structurally, sewers are GPS-denied and narrow scenarios with lack of illumination and presence of sediments, and in the communication context, the multipath propagation causes strong fading phenomena. In this work we characterize a sewer scenario from the communications point of view, based on a measuring campaign carried out in the sewers of the city of Barcelona, Spain, in the context of an ECHORD++ project towards future inspection with drones.
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This work has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No. 601116. The authors would like to thank Mr. Raul Hernandez and Mr. Albert Figueras from FCC (Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas) for their logistic support during the field tests.
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Rizzo, C. et al. (2018). Wireless Propagation Characterization of Underground Sewers Towards Autonomous Inspections with Drones. In: Ollero, A., Sanfeliu, A., Montano, L., Lau, N., Cardeira, C. (eds) ROBOT 2017: Third Iberian Robotics Conference. ROBOT 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 694. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70836-2_69
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