EAGER: Developing Multi-Hop Sensorbots for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks

EAGER：开发用于水下无线传感器网络的多跳传感器机器人

• 批准号: 1213070
• 负责人: Cody Youngbull
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-01-01 至 2014-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1213070&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Developing; Multi; Hop; Sensorbots

This EAGER proposal seeks funding to extend the Sensorbot network design, range and coverage by incorporating multi-hop functionality. Sensorbot developed by the PIs with internal ASU funding is a miniaturized, low-cost, underwater, autonomous sensor platform. A single Sensorbot constitutes a network node, capable of measuring and reporting the properties of the fluid in which it is located. With EAGER funding, short-range communicating Sensorbots will be intelligently link together to extend their coverage over long distances in a multi-hop networking approach, thus overcoming the range limitation of standard underwater optical communication. If successful, once deployed, the network of Sensorbots is expected to not only achieve continuous, autonomous, long term monitoring campaigns but to sustain two-way communication within the network. The goal of this project is to significantly extend the spatial range and coverage of a network of optically-communicating, deep ocean sensors.Broader Impacts:The Sensorbots were created to measure a wide range of low-temperature hydrothermal fluid properties. Sensors for pH, dissolved oxygen, trace metals, and temperature are now in operation, and several others are in the early stages of development. Currently under development are fluorescent polymers that respond to methane, sulfate, CO2, and other critical analytes in areas of diffuse flow in hydrothermal regions of the deep ocean. With improved communications, optical multi-hop networked Sensorbots will have broad and immediate application to a diverse array of ocean sensing fields. This potentially transformative proposal is expected to yield solutions to previously intractable questions about the extent of biogeochemical flux on the ocean floor. This project will include one post doc and two undergraduate students.

这项渴望的建议寻求资金通过合并多跳功能来扩展SensorBot网络设计，范围和覆盖范围。 PIS通过内部ASU资金开发的Sensorbot是一个微型，低成本，水下，自主传感器平台。单个Sensorbot构成网络节点，能够测量和报告其所在流体的特性。借助急切的资金，短期通信的传感器机器人将智能地链接在一起，以在多跳网络方法中长距离扩展其覆盖范围，从而克服了标准的水下光学通信的范围限制。如果成功的话，一旦部署，Sensorbots网络将不仅实现连续，自主，长期监控活动，而且还可以维持网络中的双向通信。该项目的目的是显着扩展空间范围和光学通信，深海洋传感器网络的覆盖范围。Broader的影响：创建了Sensorbots来测量广泛的低温水热流体特性。 pH，溶解氧，微量金属和温度的传感器现在正在运行，其他几个人处于发育的早期阶段。目前正在开发的是荧光聚合物对甲烷，硫酸盐，二氧化碳和其他关键分析物的反应，以及深海水热区域的弥漫流动区域。通过改进的通信，光学多跳网络的传感器机器人将在各种各样的海洋传感场上都有广泛的直接应用。这项潜在的变革性建议有望产生有关以前关于海底生物地球化学通量程度的先前棘手问题的解决方案。该项目将包括一名文档和两名本科生。