Title :
Robotic Adventure Across the Pacific: 313 Days, 17,486 Nautical km, One Cyclone, Millions of Data Points
Abstract :
With access to the open source Liquid Robotics Pacific Crossing (PacX) data, scientists will be able to conduct research into some of the world´s most challenging ocean issues, ranging from measuring the ocean´s health and respiration to studying the ocean´s biomass-the most fundamental organisms critical to ocean life.
Keywords :
control engineering computing; marine vehicles; mobile robots; public domain software; PacX data; open source liquid robotics pacific crossing data; robotic adventure; Data acquisition; Meteorology; Mobile robots; Oceans;
Journal_Title :
Robotics & Automation Magazine, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MRA.2013.2255430