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Environmental monitoring using a robotized wireless sensor network

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Big cities and growing industrial areas bring high risk of different kinds of pollutions which would implicate to the quality of life of the society. Discovering and monitoring of polluted areas using autonomous mobile robots is nowadays a frequently considered solution concerning both environmental and human safety problems. Being part of a distributed control system, such robots can help to improve the efficiency of the existing conventional pollution prevention systems. On the other hand, during the last decade, wireless sensor networks (WSN) have provoked the interest of specialists from different areas by imposing a large number of theoretical and practical challenges related to their implementation. This paper attempts to deal with both issues by presenting a possible way for building robotized WSNs that can be suitable for solving different environmental monitoring tasks. The goal is to transform the WSN into an adaptive sensor system with intelligent behavior that can be used to discover and track spots or areas where given monitored environmental parameters violate defined thresholds. The inclusion of robotized agents into the WSN structure can provide additional flexibility with respect to the installation of the network sensors and allow reliable information gathering and transfer. The proposed algorithmic methods have been tested on a pre-built laboratory prototype of a robotized WSN. The robotized agents (mobile network nodes) have been built using iRobot Create mobile platforms that are additionally equipped with a single-chip computers Gumstix Verdex pro TM XL6P with various expansion modules.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support provided within the Ministry of Education and Science of Bulgaria Research Fund Projects FNI I 02-6/2014 and FNI M 07-03/2016.

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  1. Control Systems Department, Technical University of Sofia, branch Plovdiv, Plovdiv 25 Tsanko Dyustabanov St, 4000, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

    Sevil A. Ahmed, Vasil L. Popov, Andon V. Topalov & Nikola G. Shakev

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Ahmed, S.A., Popov, V.L., Topalov, A.V. et al. Environmental monitoring using a robotized wireless sensor network. AI & Soc 33, 207–214 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-018-0815-y

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