The challenge of improving water quality is a growing global concern, typified by the
European Commission Water Framework Directive and the United States Clean Water Act …

Environmental sensor networks offer a powerful combination of distributed sensing capacity,
real‐time data visualization and analysis, and integration with adjacent networks and remote …

The need for efficient monitoring of spatio-temporal dynamics in large environmental
applications, such as the water quality monitoring in rivers and lakes, motivates the use of …

In many applications, one has to actively select among a set of expensive observations
before making an informed decision. For example, in environmental monitoring, we want to …

When monitoring spatial phenomena, such as the ecological condition of a river, deciding
where to make observations is a challenging task. In these settings, a fundamental question …

Science and technology always have been interdependent, but never more so than with
today's highly instrumented data collection practices. We report on a long-term study of …

Rapidly deployable sensor networks are portable, reusable, and can take advantage of a
human user in the field attending to the deployment. Unfortunately, even small disruptions or …

Many practical applications, such as environmental monitoring or placing sensors for event
detection, require to select among a set of informative but possibly expensive observations …

We present the Networked InfoMechanical System for Planar Translation, which is a novel
two-degree-of-freedom (2-DOF) cable-driven robot with self-calibration and online drift …

We present NIMS3D, a novel 3-D cabled robot for actuated sensing applications. We
provide a brief overview of the main hardware components. Next, we describe installation …