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“#Researchers’ robots designed to avoid environmental dangers, deliver data quickly<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\n Aerial robots developed by UT Dallas researchers can carry several cameras, an array of onboard sensors and a downwelling irradiance spectrometer \u2014 all used to gather data for mapp<\/a>ing and to learn the characteristics of environments. Credit: Lakitha Wijeratne\/UT Dallas physics doctoral student
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A University of Texas at Dallas research group has developed an autonomous robotic team of devices that can be used at hazardous or difficult-to-reach sites to make surveys and collect data\u2014providing more and faster insights than human beings are able to deliver.<\/p>\n

Dr. David Lary, professor of physics in the School of Natural Science<\/a>s and Mathematics, said his group’s robot teams\u2014composed of autonomous devices that gather data on the ground, in the air and in water\u2014would be ideally suited for hazardous environmental situations and\/or for holistic environmental surveys of ecosystems.<\/p>\n

“An autonomous team like this could do a survey and rapidly sample what’s in the air and the water so that people could be kept out of harm’s way,” Lary said. “In another context, the robots could provide a general<\/a> survey of ecosystems, or they could look at situations such as harmful algal blooms in lakes.”<\/p>\n

Lary said the autonomous robotic teams are also useful for real-time decision support in areas such as agriculture and infrastructure inspection.<\/p>\n

A recent demonstration in the field showed how the autonomous robotic team can rapidly learn the characteristics of environments it has never seen before. Lary and his colleagues deployed the robots in a test run in Plano, Texas, to demonstrate their data-gathering capabilities. He said he hopes the robot team prototype can be a model for changing the methods that are used to survey disaster sites, waterways and extreme environments.<\/p>\n

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\n Researchers at UT Dallas have developed an autonomous team of robotic devices that can be used at hazardous or difficult-to-reach sites. Working together, the robots can make surveys and collect thousands of data records in just a few minutes. Credit: Lakitha Wijeratne\/UT Dallas physics doctoral student
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The rapid acquisition of holistic data by coordinated robotic team members facilitates transparent, data-driven decisions. The approach allows for more real-time data to be gathered more rapidly and for streamlined software updates for the machines, Lary said.<\/p>\n

The multirobot, multisensor team can include various combinations of devices, such as a robot boat that carries sensors to measure water composition, as well as sonar to track objects below the surface and to provide aquatic remote sensing. At the same time, an overflying aerial robot collects hyperspectral images, providing an entire spectrum for every pixel in the image. Using the remotely sensed information, the devices\u2014through machine learning\u2014can rapidly construct wide area maps of the environmental state.<\/p>\n

“Not only do we get depth information, we also can measure the height of any vegetation that’s in the water. We can determine what is at the base of a pool, pond or estuary and the kinds of fish in the vicinity. With the sonar we can count and size the individual fish and get the total biomass in a vertical profile,” Lary said.
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In addition to the boat, the robot team includes an unmanned aerial drone that carries several cameras, an array of onboard sensors and a downwelling irradiance spectrometer, which gathers data about the radiation directed toward the Earth from the sun or the atmosphere. In addition, a ground vehicle can collect soil samples and utilize ground-penetrating radar. Satellite data can be added to the team to provide photos and measurements from space.<\/p>\n

Besides allowing access to areas that are typically inaccessible to or dangerous for humans, the robot team approach significantly enhances the amount of data that can be collected.<\/p>\n


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