The system presented herein constitutes an Intelligent Marine Prospecting System (IMPS). This architecture is fundamentally composed of a distributed network of autonomous, double-sided robotic nodes engineered for independent flotation and sustained navigation.
Each robotic unit is instrumented with a suite of sensors designed for the continuous acquisition of both maritime and meteorological data.
The proposed conceptual framework enables scalability; specifically, the system's operational coverage area can be expanded proportionally by increasing the number of deployed nodes within the network. Inter-robot communication is established via a low-power, long-range protocol, such as LoRa, facilitating the intelligent interconnection and synchronised data exchange among the distributed nodes. Subsequently, all aggregated data are reliably transmitted to the central user interface through a dedicated gateway infrastructure.