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  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,035 Views
25 Pages

Learning to Rapidly Re-Contact the Lost Plume in Chemical Plume Tracing

  • Meng-Li Cao,
  • Qing-Hao Meng,
  • Jia-Ying Wang,
  • Bing Luo,
  • Ya-Qi Jing and
  • Shu-Gen Ma

27 March 2015

Maintaining contact between the robot and plume is significant in chemical plume tracing (CPT). In the time immediately following the loss of chemical detection during the process of CPT, Track-Out activities bias the robot heading relative to the up...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
9,651 Views
27 Pages

Adapting an Ant Colony Metaphor for Multi-Robot Chemical Plume Tracing

  • Qing-Hao Meng,
  • Wei-Xing Yang,
  • Yang Wang,
  • Fei Li and
  • Ming Zeng

12 April 2012

We consider chemical plume tracing (CPT) in time-varying airflow environments using multiple mobile robots. The purpose of CPT is to approach a gas source with a previously unknown location in a given area. Therefore, the CPT could be considered as a...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,584 Views
20 Pages

This article presents two new chemical plume tracing (CPT) algorithms for using on autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) to locate hydrothermal vents. We aim to design effective CPT navigation algorithms that direct AUVs to trace emitted hydrothermal...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Technology Advances in Ocean Observation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,934 Views
23 Pages

Identifying Rhodamine Dye Plume Sources in Near-Shore Oceanic Environments by Integration of Chemical and Visual Sensors

  • Yu Tian,
  • Xiaodong Kang,
  • Yunyi Li,
  • Wei Li,
  • Aiqun Zhang,
  • Jiangchen Yu and
  • Yiping Li

18 March 2013

This article presents a strategy for identifying the source location of a chemical plume in near-shore oceanic environments where the plume is developed under the influence of turbulence, tides and waves. This strategy includes two modules: source de...

(This article belongs to the Section Chemical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
7,373 Views
21 Pages

Design and Experimental Evaluation of an Odor Sensing Method for a Pocket-Sized Quadcopter

  • Shunsuke Shigaki,
  • Muhamad Rausyan Fikri and
  • Daisuke Kurabayashi

1 November 2018

In this study, we design and verify an intake system using the wake of a pocket-sized quadcopter for the chemical plume tracing (CPT) problem. Solving CPT represents an important technique in the field of engineering because it can be used to perform...

(This article belongs to the Section Chemical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,197 Views
17 Pages

20 July 2022

In this paper, the initial neutral atmospheric parameters, background ionospheric parameters and geomagnetic field parameters of the ionosphere are obtained by NRLMSISE-00 model, IRI-2016 model and IGRF-13 model, respectively. Considering the neutral...

(This article belongs to the Section Upper Atmosphere)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,249 Views
21 Pages

21 January 2019

In this paper, we present an estimation-based route planning (ERP) method for chemical source searching using a wheeled mobile robot and validate its effectiveness with outdoor field experiments. The ERP method plans a dynamic route for the robot to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mobile Robot Olfaction for Real-World Applications–From Disaster Response to Environmental Monitoring)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,349 Views
15 Pages

3 February 2022

Hydrothermal vents are one of the important sources of major or trace elements in the ocean. The elemental fluxes, however, may be dynamic due to coastal processes and hydrothermal plumes, especially in shallow-water hydrothermal vents. We collected...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Shallow Water Hydrothermal Activities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
9,144 Views
12 Pages

Detection of Explosives in a Dynamic Marine Environment Using a Moored TNT Immunosensor

  • Paul T. Charles,
  • André A. Adams,
  • Jeffrey R. Deschamps,
  • Scott Veitch,
  • Al Hanson and
  • Anne W. Kusterbeck

27 February 2014

A field demonstration and longevity assessment for long-term monitoring of the explosive 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) in a marine environment using an anti-TNT microfluidic immunosensor is described. The TNT immunosensor is comprised of a microfluidic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Chemo- and Biosensors for Security and Defense)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,841 Views
15 Pages

17 February 2023

Mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORBs), produced at mid-ocean ridge where the continents and subduction zones are distant, are the product of partial melting of the upper mantle and their chemical composition can provide information about the mantle itself....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research on Submarine Hydrothermal Activity and Its Material Circulation, Magmatic Setting, and Seawater, Sedimentary, Biologic Effects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,296 Views
19 Pages

Contribution of Volcanic and Fumarolic Emission to the Aerosol in Marine Atmosphere in the Central Mediterranean Sea: Results from Med-Oceanor 2017 Cruise Campaign

  • Sacha Moretti,
  • Apostolos Salmatonidis,
  • Xavier Querol,
  • Antonella Tassone,
  • Virginia Andreoli,
  • Mariantonia Bencardino,
  • Nicola Pirrone,
  • Francesca Sprovieri and
  • Attilio Naccarato

30 January 2020

This work studied the contribution of the geogenic sources volcanoes and fumaroles to the aerosol in marine atmosphere in the central Mediterranean basin. For this purpose, in the framework of the Med-Oceanor measurement program, we carried out a cru...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sources and Composition of Ambient Particulate Matter)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,615 Views
18 Pages

31 January 2023

Iron is a limiting nutrient in the marine biogeochemical cycle, and hydrothermal processes at mid-ocean ridges are well-known as one of its sources to the water column. However, a major portion of the hydrothermal iron is precipitated near the source...

(This article belongs to the Topic Seafloor Hydrothermal Systems: Recent Advances in Mineralogy, Geochemistry and Microbiology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,937 Views
27 Pages

23 December 2021

Chemical industrial parks, which act as critical infrastructures in many cities, need to be responsive to chemical gas leakage accidents. Once a chemical gas leakage accident occurs, risks of poisoning, fire, and explosion will follow. In order to me...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,128 Views
31 Pages

The Roles of Transcrustal Magma- and Fluid-Conducting Faults in the Formation of Mineral Deposits

  • Farida Issatayeva,
  • Auez Abetov,
  • Gulzada Umirova,
  • Aigerim Abdullina,
  • Zhanibek Mustafin and
  • Oleksii Karpenko

In this article, we consider the roles of transcrustal magma- and fluid-conducting faults (TCMFCFs) in the formation of mineral deposits, showing the importance of deep sources of heat and hydrothermal solutions in the genesis and history of deposit...

(This article belongs to the Section Geophysics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,680 Views
15 Pages

In this paper, the ionospheric disturbances of CO2, which is released by rocket exhaust plumes, was simulated. The effect of this disturbance on the propagation of high-frequency (HF) radio waves at different incident frequencies was also simulated b...

(This article belongs to the Section Space Science)
  • Review
  • Open Access
42 Citations
11,923 Views
36 Pages

The Unmanned Systems Research Laboratory (USRL): A New Facility for UAV-Based Atmospheric Observations

  • Maria Kezoudi,
  • Christos Keleshis,
  • Panayiota Antoniou,
  • George Biskos,
  • Murat Bronz,
  • Christos Constantinides,
  • Maximillien Desservettaz,
  • Ru-Shan Gao,
  • Joe Girdwood and
  • Jean Sciare
  • + 15 authors

13 August 2021

The Unmanned Systems Research Laboratory (USRL) of the Cyprus Institute is a new mobile exploratory platform of the EU Research Infrastructure Aerosol, Clouds and Trace Gases Research InfraStructure (ACTRIS). USRL offers exclusive Unmanned Aerial Veh...

(This article belongs to the Section Aerosols)