S&AS: INT: COLLAB: Goal-driven Marine Autonomy with Application to Fisheries Science and Management

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• 批准号: 1849137
• 负责人: Catherine Edwards
• 金额: $ 25万
• 依托单位: University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-02-15 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1849137&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: S& INT; COLLAB; Goal; driven

Marine robots can be used to accurately map and track marine life, leading to a better interpretation of variability and migration patterns that are important to fisheries managers in marine protected areas (MPAs). Principles of engineering and oceanography can be used to maximize the impact of a network of marine robots, but because fisheries managers, oceanographers, and roboticists have different perspectives and knowledge bases, it can be difficult to take advantage of cutting-edge research in each field without significant effort to translate among the groups. Researchers will develop a computational interface that translates human-specified missions of fisheries managers into multi-level planning for a fleet of marine robots to monitor fish populations in a dynamic coastal ocean environment. The system will be designed with input from fisheries managers through a series of workshops, and will be field-tested at Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary, a federally-managed MPA off the coast of Georgia. The research will lead to more accurate and effective ways to monitor fish populations in MPAs, as well as breakthroughs in key areas of artificial intelligence and autonomous systems. Many of the results will be applicable to other smart and autonomous systems in challenging environments. In addition, the project will train graduate students and broaden undergraduate education in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), and offer a number of outreach activities, including working with the University of Georgia Marine Extension service to develop a summer camp for middle and high school students.The project is focused on developing an intelligent physical system (IPS) that consists of a heterogeneous fleet of marine robots, cooperatively tracking fish movement and surveying the habitat with minimum request for human intervention. The IPS will translate the human-specified missions of fisheries managers into goal-driven task designs for each robot, and automatically generate executable plans for the networked mobile sensing agents. The system will autonomously and persistently collect in-situ measurements and acoustic detections of fish species while maintaining multi-scale data streams and constructing multiple spatial-temporal maps reflecting the conditions of the ecosystem. The research aims to discover the hotspots (e.g., spatial locations with sustained congregations of fish), as well as illuminate more information about how and when fish move among these hotspots. This goal is quite challenging due to a number of gaps between project needs and the state-of-art autonomy research. Researchers will address the challenges through new developments that accomplish three main tasks: (1) Developing the goal-driven marine autonomy for fish habitat survey, (2) realizing the goal-driven autonomy on physical systems, and (3) evaluating the developed framework through real-life field work, experiments, and data analysis.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

海洋机器人可用于精确地绘制和跟踪海洋生物，从而更好地解释海洋保护区（MPAs）的渔业管理人员的可变性和迁移模式。工程和海洋学原理可以用来最大限度地发挥海洋机器人网络的影响，但由于渔业管理者、海洋学家和机器人专家有不同的观点和知识基础，如果不付出巨大的努力，就很难利用每个领域的前沿研究。研究人员将开发一种计算界面，将渔业管理人员指定的任务转化为海洋机器人舰队的多层次规划，以监测动态沿海海洋环境中的鱼类种群。该系统的设计将通过一系列研讨会听取渔业管理人员的意见，并将在格雷礁国家海洋保护区进行实地测试。格雷礁国家海洋保护区是乔治亚州海岸外由联邦管理的海洋保护区。这项研究将带来更准确、更有效的方法来监测海洋保护区的鱼类种群，并在人工智能和自主系统的关键领域取得突破。许多结果将适用于具有挑战性的环境中的其他智能和自主系统。此外，该项目还将培训研究生，拓宽科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）领域的本科教育，并提供一系列外展活动，包括与佐治亚大学海洋推广服务中心合作，为初高中学生举办夏令营。该项目的重点是开发一个智能物理系统（IPS），该系统由一个异构的海洋机器人船队组成，协同跟踪鱼类运动，并在最小的人为干预要求下调查栖息地。IPS将把渔业管理者的人类指定任务转化为每个机器人的目标驱动任务设计，并自动为网络移动传感代理生成可执行的计划。该系统将自动持续地收集鱼类的原位测量和声学检测，同时保持多尺度数据流并构建反映生态系统状况的多个时空地图。该研究旨在发现热点（例如，鱼类持续聚集的空间位置），并阐明有关鱼类如何以及何时在这些热点之间移动的更多信息。由于项目需求与最先进的自动驾驶研究之间存在许多差距，这一目标相当具有挑战性。研究人员将通过新的发展来应对挑战，完成以下三个主要任务：(1)开发目标驱动的鱼类栖息地调查海洋自主性；(2)实现物理系统的目标驱动自主性；(3)通过实际现场工作、实验和数据分析来评估开发的框架。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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• DOI: 10.1145/3491315.3491331
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Proc WUWNet'21
• 作者: McQuarrie, Frank;Brock Woodson, Clifton;R. Edwards, Catherine
• 通讯作者: R. Edwards, Catherine

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• DOI: 10.5670/oceanog.2021.supplement.02-28
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Oceanography
• 影响因子: 2.8
• 作者: Miles, T.

Learning and detecting abnormal speed of marine robots

• DOI: 10.1177/1729881421999268
• 发表时间: 2021-03-01
• 期刊: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADVANCED ROBOTIC SYSTEMS
• 影响因子: 2.3
• 作者: Cho, Sungjin;Zhang, Fumin;Edwards, Catherine R.
• 通讯作者: Edwards, Catherine R.