Exploring the unknown through low power and low resource versatile agents

The Phoenix project aims to develop a new approach to explore unknown environments, based on multiple measurement campaigns carried out by extremely tiny devices, called agents, that gather data from multiple sensors. These low power and low resource agents are configured specifically for each measurement campaign to achieve the exploration goal in the smallest number of iterations. Thus, the main design challenge is to build agents as much reconfigurable as possible. This paper introduces the Phoenix project in more details and presents first developments in the agent design.

Publication year:2017