IN33C:
Robot-Assisted Measurement of Geophysical Information Posters


Session ID#: 9186

Session Description:
The personal robotics movement has resulted in a diffusion of low-cost robot platforms into geophysical domains such as hydrology, volcanology, and environmental science. Land, sea, and aerial robots have become new methods of sensing and sense-making for investigators because they allow access to locations that may have been previously unreachable. The flexible payloads of these robots permit geophysical information gathering at spatial and temporal scales that extend beyond the more fixed resolutions of traditional remote sensing platforms. The synthesis and integration of these data sets is expected to generate higher resolution physically based models that will enable better understanding and prediction of various system dynamics. This session will provide an interdisciplinary forum to discuss current and needed advances for field robot-based technologies focused towards geophysical applications. Contributions are invited from investigators who are developing and deploying novel robot platforms and/or payloads for any type of geophysical information gathering.
Primary Convener:  Joshua Peschel, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
Convener:  Branko Kerkez, University of Michigan, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Chair:  Joshua Peschel, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Joshua Peschel, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • H - Hydrology
  • NH - Natural Hazards
  • NS - Near Surface Geophysics
  • OS - Ocean Sciences

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Sascha Floegel, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany
John A Orcutt1, Jonathan Berger2, Gabi Laske3 and Jeff Babcock1, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States, (2)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, (3)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Sally E Thompson1, Michaella Chung1, Carrick Detweiler2 and John-Paul Ore2, (1)University of California Berkeley, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Computer Science and Engineering, Lincoln, NE, United States
Branko Kerkez1, Brandon Preclaro Wong2, Laura Balzano3, John Lipor4 and Donald Scavia3, (1)University of Michigan, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (3)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (4)Portland State University, Portland, United States
Joshua Peschel, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States
Sierra Noelle Young, Utah State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Logan, United States and Joshua Peschel, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States
Adam Burns, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States and Joshua Peschel, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States