AquaNet

保护或监测加拿大港口和沿海边界是一项复杂而艰巨的任务，部分原因是缺乏以灵活方式有力地获取数据的适当技术，以及解释数据的挑战。Aquanet项目将开发自动车辆和传感器网络技术，以使一系列移动和固定传感器平台能够监测与运输和/或边境安全相关的近岸环境。Aquanet项目致力于对通常对电子传感具有挑战性的环境进行分布式传感，包括水下、海岸线、湿地和港口环境。该项目使用了移动机器人、固定传感器以及它们之间的交互。这些技术对于为交通和类似基础设施提供安全保障至关重要。Aquanet项目将对开发不同种类的机器人传感器网络进行纯粹的和应用的研究，以监测浅水环境、湿地、港口和相关地形。该项目将探索与在浅水和近岸陆地环境中工作的一组自治代理人的通信、传感和规划有关的问题。

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.