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Environmnent
New Robotic Fish for Environmental Monitoring
A group of researchers from Centre for Automation and Robotics (CAR CSIC-
UPM) in collaboration with researchers from University of Florence are designing
autonomous underwater vehicle with biosensors to monitor water quality.These
robots, that mimic a swimming fish in order to minimize the fish disturbance and
stress, can detect in-situ real-time anomalies and this is suitable to control envi-
ronmental conditions in fish farms.
Aquaculture has become the fastest growing animal food sector in the world.To-
day, the production of fish, crustaceans and shellfish supplies around fifty percent-
ages of all fish that is consumed by humans globally. In order to keep aquaculture
systems at an optimal level and to avoid physiological stress and disease of fish,
water quality and adequate nutrition must be monitored and controlled.
In order to tackle this problem, researchers from Bio-inspired Systems Lab at
CAR UPM-CSIC, a joint centre between Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and
the Spanish National Research Council, in collaboration with researchers from
the Chemical Department of University of Florence (Italy) are developing an
autonomous underwater vehicle with biosensor to provide real-time and on-site
monitoring of water quality in fish farms.
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