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Exploration and Exploitation in Actuated
Communication Networks
NSF NeTS Large
Collaborative: CNS 1213128
Project Summary
The oceans cover 71% of the earth's surface and
represent one of the least explored frontiers, yet the oceans are integral to climate
regulation, nutrient production, oil retrieval, and transportation. It can be
reasonably argued that we know more about the solar system and space, than we
do about the parts of planet earth covered by water. Future scientific and
technological efforts to achieve better understanding of oceans and
water-related applications will rely heavily on our ability to jointly consider
communications, actuation and sensing in a platform that includes instruments,
vehicles, human operators and sensors of all types.
The goal of the Exploration and Exploitation in
Actuated Communication Networks project is to design networking tools for
mobile underwater networks, develop novel navigation mechanisms for
communication constrained autonomous underwater vehicles and to ultimately
couple in sensing and classification to provide solutions for the
exploration-exploitation tradeoff. We shall examine: (a) mobile underwater network design;
(b) AUV routing with communication constraints; and (c) integrating sensing to
design exploration/exploitation algorithms.
People
(listed
alphabetically)
·
Sunav Choudhary (USC)
·
Franz Hover
(co-PI) (MIT)
·
Naveen Kumar (USC)
·
Urbashi Mitra (PI) (USC)
·
Shri Narayanan
(co-PI) (USC)
·
Milica Stojanovic
(co-PI)
(NEU)
·
Gaurav Sukhatme (co-PI)
(USC)
Alumni:
Daphney Zois (USC)
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