Recent advances in miniaturization of chemical instrumentation and in low-cost small
drones are catalyzing exponential growth in the use of such platforms for environmental …

Within the last couple of decades, there has been increasing research into the use of mobile
robots for gas sensing applications. This has led to many different branches of research …

This paper describes the development and validation of the currently smallest aerial platform
with olfaction capabilities. The developed Smelling Nano Aerial Vehicle (SNAV) is based on …

Indoor environmental quality (IEQ) is a critical aspect of the built environment to ensure
occupant health, comfort, well-being and productivity. Existing IEQ monitoring approaches …

Robots are generally equipped with at least several different modalities of sensors. Vision
and range sensors are the most popular, especially in mobile robots. On the other hand …

This paper discusses odor source localization (OSL) using a mobile robot in an outdoor time-
variant airflow environment. A novel OSL algorithm based on particle filters (PF) is proposed …

This article presents the development and validation of an autonomous, gas sensitive
microdrone that is capable of estimating the wind vector in real time using only the onboard …

This work presents a simulation framework developed under the widely used Robot
Operating System (ROS) to enable the validation of robotics systems and gas sensing …

Accurate prediction of gas concentration is of great importance in many safe-based systems
and applications. However, prediction accuracy of gas concentration is limited by not only …

Airborne chemical sensing with mobile robots has been an active research area since the
beginning of the 1990s. This article presents a review of research work in this field, including …