Mobile Robot Olfaction (MRO) is the discipline that studies mobile robots with gas sensing capabilities. It is a relatively young discipline, and it is starting to attract attention in the robotics and chemical sensing communities.
- Have you ever worked with gas sensitive mobile robots?
- If so, which problem (gas source localization, gas distribution mapping, gas detection, etc.) did you address?
- Can you point at any interesting reference dealing with MRO?
- Which, in your opinion, are the most relevant applications of gas sensitive mobile robots?
Crisis Management is an interesting application (which we did here: http://www.youtube.com/user/UGVCentre/featured?lr=1&v=YVj7_yKCznY). Another is sniffing for landmines (which we do here: http://www.fp7-tiramisu.eu/). A main problem is bringing down the sensor weight and measurement time though.
Thanks Geert, very interesting projects!
Which kind of chemical sensors do you mount on your robots?
We (www.seacoastscience.com)recently completed a project with the US Army here on the detection of TICs and other dangerous chemicals using a preconcetrator/GC/sensor array mounted to a Unmanned Ground Vehicle.
Hello Stephen, thanks for your answer!
Could you please point me at any website/publication/publicly available material where I can find information on your research involving UGVs?
For the first application: A prototype chemical sensor by Sheffield Hallam University: http://www.shu.ac.uk/research/meri/who-we-are?centreid=10
For the second application we're working on the integration of a sensor being developed by the University of Saint-Andrews: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~polyopto/home.shtml
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