Newswise — Thomas Bewley is the director of the Flow Control and Coordinated Robotics Labs at the University of California San Diego. He and his team have developed a system to build and coordinate scores of sensor-laden balloons to monitor hurricanes. Using onboard GPS and cellphone-grade sensors, each drifting balloon becomes part of a ``swarm’’ of robotic vehicles, which can periodically report, via satellite uplink, their position, the local temperature, pressure, humidity and wind velocity.
Full release here: http://jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=2102
Bewley bio: http://jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/faculty/faculty_bios/index.sfe?fmp_recid=64
Lab website: https://www.ucsdrobotics.org/
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