Robotfish-based Underwater Mobile Sensor Networks for Environmental Monitoring

摘要

Rapid progress in MEMS technology and the ability to build devices capable of communicating among each other has promoted the development of sensor networks. In this paper, underwater mobile reconfigurable sensor networks architecture is presented to monitor environment. This system is divided into three modules: sensing, communication and processing. Focusing on a practical problem, finding the heat source position in finite water area, algorithms of forming equilateral triangle and search are presented to locate the position. Robotfish is adopted as carrier to fix sensors in this paper. The validity of the algorithms is tested through simulations.