Robotics and Ubiquitous Computing

The plant care project helps us to investigate how mobile robots can interact with environments that are equipped with networks of sensors. The task of the robot is to water the plants and maintain and calibrate the sensors in the environment.

Project Contributors

Gaetano Borriello, Dieter Fox, Jeffrey Hightower, Anthony Lamarca

Main publications

• PlantCare: An Investigation in Practical Ubiquitous Systems
  A. LaMarca, W. Brunette, D. Koizumi, M. Lease, S.B. Sigurdsson, K. Sikorski, D. Fox, G. Borriello. UBICOMP-02.
• Making Sensor Networks Practical with Robots
  A. LaMarca, W. Brunette, D. Koizumi, M. Lease, S.B. Sigurdsson, K. Sikorski, D. Fox, G. Borriello. PERVASIVE-02.