ACKNOWLEDGMENT This work was financial supported by Concytec-The World Bank Project ”Improvement and Expansion of Services of the National System of Science, Technology and Technological Innovation” 8682-PE, through its executing unit Fondecyt under contract No. 054-2018-FONDECYT- BM-IADT-AV.Furthermore, the authors thank the support of the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru and the Center for Autonomous Systems of the Sydney University of Technology for the support provided during the execution of the research project.

The following paper describes the design, implementation and preliminary tests of an Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV) robot, able to collect water quality parameters and bathymeter measurements in lakes and bodies of fresh water at the Peruvian highlands. The USV robot is developed in order to be a measurement tool to monitor water pollution and help to improve the current methods used for this task. The USV integrates a video system which is used to maneuver the robot, a multiparameter probe for measuring water quality parameters (temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, conductivity and colored dissolved organic matter), a bathymeter to obtain depth measurements, and a wireless outdoor base station to create a wireless local area network through which the data is received and transmitted. The preliminary results of the performance of the USV are obtained from a lake located in the Pe...