Agencies for perception in environmental monitoring

Author

Amigoni, Francesco ; Brandolini, Arnaldo ; Caglioti, Vincenzo ; Di Lecce, Vincenzo ; Guerriero, Andrea ; Lazzaroni, Massimo ; Lombardi, Franco ; Ottoboni, Roberto ; Pasero, Eros ; Piuri, Vincenzo ; Scotti, Olga ; Somenzi, Damiano

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Inf., Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Volume

55

Issue

4

fYear

2006

Firstpage

1038

Lastpage

1050

Abstract

This paper presents the main results obtained in the Agencies for PErception in environmental monitoring (APE) Project, funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research, and aimed at studying the employment of advanced distributed artificial intelligence techniques in developing cooperative multiagent systems oriented to support environmental monitoring applications. In particular, this paper describes issues about communication between perceptive agents and two implemented multiagent systems for monitoring electromagnetic fields and for pollutant evaluation.

Keywords

air pollution measurement; atmospheric techniques; distributed processing; electromagnetic fields; environmental management; environmental science computing; multi-agent systems; advanced distributed artificial intelligence; agencies for perception; air pollution; cooperative multiagent systems; electromagnetic fields monitoring; environmental monitoring; mobile robots; perceptive agents; pollutant evaluation; robot sensing systems; sensor networks; smart sensors; Artificial intelligence; Electromagnetic fields; Employment; Intelligent agent; Intelligent sensors; Monitoring; Multiagent systems; Pollution; Robot sensing systems; Sensor systems; Air pollution; cooperative systems; electromagnetic fields (EMFs); mobile robots; robot sensing systems; sensor networks; smart sensors;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9456

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TIM.2006.877747

Filename

1658352