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Networked Robotic Cameras for Collaborative Observation of Natural Environments

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Robotics Research

Part of the book series: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics ((STAR,volume 28))

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Scientific study of animals in situ requires vigilant observation of detailed animal behavior over weeks or months. When animals live in remote and/or inhospitable locations, observation can be an arduous, expensive, dangerous, and lonely experience for scientists. Emerging advances in robot cameras, long-range wireless networking, and distributed sensors make feasible a new class of portable robotic “observatories” that can allow groups of scientists, via the internet, to remotely observe, record, and index detailed animal activity. As a shorthand for such an instrument, we propose the acronym CONE: Collaborative Observatory for Natural Environments.

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  1. CS Department, Texas A&M University, USA

    Dezhen Song

  2. IEOR Department, UC Berkeley, Berkeley

    Ken Goldberg

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, CA, 94305-9045, Stanford, USA

    Sebastian Thrun

  2. MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), 32 Vassar Street, MA, 02139, Cambridge, USA

    Rodney Brooks

  3. Australian Centre for Field Robotics, University of Sydney, 2006, Sydney, Australia

    Hugh Durrant-Whyte

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Song, D., Goldberg, K. (2007). Networked Robotic Cameras for Collaborative Observation of Natural Environments. In: Thrun, S., Brooks, R., Durrant-Whyte, H. (eds) Robotics Research. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, vol 28. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-48113-3_43

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