The project aims at enabling environmental monitoring of rivers with a robotic team composed of an autonomous surface vehicle (ASV) and a quad-copter. The major challenges to be faced in the project are related to autonomous navigation in riverine environments and complex interactions between the two robotic platforms. There is also considerable integration effort involved.

This document reports the progress of the RIVERWATCH experiment from week 1 to week 8. In this period, tasks 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6 advanced as planned in the experiment’s proposal.