Robotic fish enabled carbon dioxide leak detection for offshore carbon dioxide sequestration monitoring
AssigneeUniversity of Houston System
InventorsZheng Chen, Miao Pan, Jiefu Chen
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Abstract
A method for detecting and locating a carbon dioxide leak in a submarine environment includes operating autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) in the submarine environment, where the operating includes obtaining, with each AUV of the AUVs, measurements of an attribute indicative of carbon dioxide, communicating, while operating the AUVs, the measurements from the each AUV to other AUVs of the AUVs, mapping, while operating the autonomous AUVs, carbon dioxide concentration in the submarine environment, and guiding the AUVs toward a highest concentration of the carbon dioxide concentration based on the mapping.
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A method for detecting and locating a carbon dioxide leak in a submarine environment, the method comprising:
- operating autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) in the submarine environment, wherein the operating includes obtaining, with each AUV of the AUVs, measurements of an attribute indicative of carbon dioxide;
- communicating, while operating the AUVs, the measurements from the each AUV to other AUVs of the AUVs;
- mapping, while operating the autonomous AUVs, carbon dioxide concentration in the submarine environment;
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- guiding the AUVs toward a highest concentration of the carbon dioxide concentration based on the mapping.
A system for detecting and locating a carbon dioxide leak in a submarine environment, the system comprising:
- autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), each AUV of the AUVs comprising:
- a sensor to obtain measurements of an attribute in the submarine environment that is indicative of carbon dioxide;
- a transmitter to communicate the measurements to the each AUV of the AUVs;
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- a control logic to implement a carbon dioxide gradient estimation using the measurements to calculate a gradient vector;
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- a swarm logic to guide the AUVs using the gradient vector to a highest carbon dioxide concentration.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.