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Trustable Environmental Monitoring by Means of Sensors Networks on Swarming Autonomous Marine Vessels and Distributed Ledger Technology

The article describes a highly trustable environmental monitoring system employing a small scalable swarm of small-sized marine vessels equipped with compact sensors and intended for the monitoring of water resources and infrastructures. The technological foundation of the process which guarantees t...

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Autores principales: Berman, Ivan, Zereik, Enrica, Kapitonov, Aleksandr, Bonsignorio, Fabio, Khassanov, Alisher, Oripova, Aziza, Lonshakov, Sergei, Bulatov, Vitaly
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7805745/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33501237
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2020.00070
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author Berman, Ivan
Zereik, Enrica
Kapitonov, Aleksandr
Bonsignorio, Fabio
Khassanov, Alisher
Oripova, Aziza
Lonshakov, Sergei
Bulatov, Vitaly
author_facet Berman, Ivan
Zereik, Enrica
Kapitonov, Aleksandr
Bonsignorio, Fabio
Khassanov, Alisher
Oripova, Aziza
Lonshakov, Sergei
Bulatov, Vitaly
author_sort Berman, Ivan
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description The article describes a highly trustable environmental monitoring system employing a small scalable swarm of small-sized marine vessels equipped with compact sensors and intended for the monitoring of water resources and infrastructures. The technological foundation of the process which guarantees that any third party can not alter the samples taken by the robot swarm is based on the Robonomics platform. This platform provides encrypted decentralized technologies based on distributed ledger tools, and market mechanisms for organizing the work of heterogeneous multi-vendor cyber-physical systems when automated economical transactions are needed. A small swarm of robots follows the autonomous ship, which is in charge of maintaining the secure transactions. The swarm implements a version of Reynolds' Boids model based on the Belief Space Planning approach. The main contributions of our work consist of: (1) the deployment of a secure sample certification and logging platform based on the blockchain with a small-sized swarm of autonomous vessels performing maneuvers to measure chemical parameters of water in automatic mode; (2) the coordination of a leader-follower framework for the small platoon of robots by means of a Reynolds' Boids model based on a Belief Space Planning approach. In addition, the article describes the process of measuring the chemical parameters of water by using sensors located on the vessels. Both technology testing on experimental vessel and environmental measurements are detailed. The results have been obtained through real world experiments of an autonomous vessel, which was integrated as the “leader” into a mixed reality simulation of a swarm of simulated smaller vessels.The design of the experimental vessel physically deployed in the Volga river to demonstrate the practical viability of the proposed methods is shortly described.
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spelling pubmed-78057452021-01-25 Trustable Environmental Monitoring by Means of Sensors Networks on Swarming Autonomous Marine Vessels and Distributed Ledger Technology Berman, Ivan Zereik, Enrica Kapitonov, Aleksandr Bonsignorio, Fabio Khassanov, Alisher Oripova, Aziza Lonshakov, Sergei Bulatov, Vitaly Front Robot AI Robotics and AI The article describes a highly trustable environmental monitoring system employing a small scalable swarm of small-sized marine vessels equipped with compact sensors and intended for the monitoring of water resources and infrastructures. The technological foundation of the process which guarantees that any third party can not alter the samples taken by the robot swarm is based on the Robonomics platform. This platform provides encrypted decentralized technologies based on distributed ledger tools, and market mechanisms for organizing the work of heterogeneous multi-vendor cyber-physical systems when automated economical transactions are needed. A small swarm of robots follows the autonomous ship, which is in charge of maintaining the secure transactions. The swarm implements a version of Reynolds' Boids model based on the Belief Space Planning approach. The main contributions of our work consist of: (1) the deployment of a secure sample certification and logging platform based on the blockchain with a small-sized swarm of autonomous vessels performing maneuvers to measure chemical parameters of water in automatic mode; (2) the coordination of a leader-follower framework for the small platoon of robots by means of a Reynolds' Boids model based on a Belief Space Planning approach. In addition, the article describes the process of measuring the chemical parameters of water by using sensors located on the vessels. Both technology testing on experimental vessel and environmental measurements are detailed. The results have been obtained through real world experiments of an autonomous vessel, which was integrated as the “leader” into a mixed reality simulation of a swarm of simulated smaller vessels.The design of the experimental vessel physically deployed in the Volga river to demonstrate the practical viability of the proposed methods is shortly described. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-05-28 /pmc/articles/PMC7805745/ /pubmed/33501237 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2020.00070 Text en Copyright © 2020 Berman, Zereik, Kapitonov, Bonsignorio, Khassanov, Oripova, Lonshakov and Bulatov. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Robotics and AI
Berman, Ivan
Zereik, Enrica
Kapitonov, Aleksandr
Bonsignorio, Fabio
Khassanov, Alisher
Oripova, Aziza
Lonshakov, Sergei
Bulatov, Vitaly
Trustable Environmental Monitoring by Means of Sensors Networks on Swarming Autonomous Marine Vessels and Distributed Ledger Technology
title Trustable Environmental Monitoring by Means of Sensors Networks on Swarming Autonomous Marine Vessels and Distributed Ledger Technology
title_full Trustable Environmental Monitoring by Means of Sensors Networks on Swarming Autonomous Marine Vessels and Distributed Ledger Technology
title_fullStr Trustable Environmental Monitoring by Means of Sensors Networks on Swarming Autonomous Marine Vessels and Distributed Ledger Technology
title_full_unstemmed Trustable Environmental Monitoring by Means of Sensors Networks on Swarming Autonomous Marine Vessels and Distributed Ledger Technology
title_short Trustable Environmental Monitoring by Means of Sensors Networks on Swarming Autonomous Marine Vessels and Distributed Ledger Technology
title_sort trustable environmental monitoring by means of sensors networks on swarming autonomous marine vessels and distributed ledger technology
topic Robotics and AI
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7805745/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33501237
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2020.00070
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