OASIS

Abstract

The OASIS (Optimized Agricultural Sensor Integration System) project is a USDA-NIFA-funded project, developing the interface between jLab’s advanced sensing strategies with field robotics. Robotics becomes necessary as the communication solution, in the low-power sensing paradigm where long-range wireless communication is infeasible. OASIS is co-PI’ed by Dr. Steve McGuire, who leads the Human Aware Robotic Exploration Laboratory (HARE Lab), which is working to build robotics systems that work well as collaborators in teams with humans. The core vision is to survey a large array of the jLab sensors using aerial and ground robotics teams to select the most informative set of sensors to visit and measure from, assuming that the full array is too large for a single robot to query. Once this data is collected, it will be used to drive a data-driven physics engine, which will be used to extrapolate the field’s full subsurface state from the potentially sparse set of direct sensor measurements.

Updates

• 10/16/2024: Project page established.