An autonomous surface vehicle for water quality measurements in a lake using MQTT protocol

Arzamendia M.; Britez D.; Recalde G.; Gomez V.; Santacruz M.; Gregor D.; Gutierrez D.; Toral S.; Cuellar F. · 2021 IEEE CHILEAN Conference on Electrical, Electronics Engineering, Information and Communication Technologies, CHILECON 2021 (2021) · DOI: 10.1109/chilecon54041.2021.9702999

Resumen

The implementation of an Autonomous Surface Vehicle with water quality meter for monitoring a lake is described. The vehicle is a catamaran type and the guidance, navigation and control system was developed with a Raspberry Pi and a Pixhawk. For the sensors an arm was designed and built for submerging them at the measurement locations and during navigation. Furthermore, the MQTT protocol was used for sending the measured data to a remote server. The field tests showed how the ASV can effectively cover and take measurements in a rectangular area and the data was stored at the remote data server.

Instituciones: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú