AquaNet

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Securing or monitoring Canada's ports and coastal borders is a complex and difficult task due, in part, the lack of appropriate technology to robustly acquire data in a flexible manner, as well as the challenge of interpreting the data. The AquaNet project will develop autonomous vehicle and sensor network technology to enable a collection of mobile and sessile sensor platforms to monitor near shore environments associated with transportation and/or border security. The AquaNet project addresses distributed sensing of environments that are typically challenging for electronic sensing including underwater, shoreline, wetland and portside environments. The project uses a combination of moving robots, fixed sensors, and interactions between them. These are technologies that are essential to provide safety and security for transportation and similar infrastructure. The AquaNet project will conduct pure and applied research into the development of heterogeneous robot sensor networks to monitor shallow aquatic environments, wetlands, ports and related terrains. The project will explore issues related to communication, sensing and planning for a collection of autonomous agents operating in shallow aquatic and near shore terrestrial environments.