A mobile wireless sensor network architecture for collaborative tasks achievement by means of autonomous robot swarm

Author

Viani, Federico ; Donelli, Massimo ; Oliveri, Giacomo ; Massa, Andrea

Author_Institution

DISI, Univ. of Trento, Trento, Italy

fYear

2010

fDate

11-17 July 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this work, an experimental study of an intelligent distributed network where sensors and robots interact to solve collaborative tasks is presented. Thanks to the wireless connections among fixed and mobile (robot) nodes, a distributed sensing is realized as well as the achievement of a user-defined control task. In order to assess the feasibility of the proposed distributed control strategy as well as the reliability of the WSN-based mixed (fixed and mobile) robotic system, some preliminary experimental results concerned with the location of the most illuminated point in a room are shown.

Keywords

mobile robots; reliability; wireless sensor networks; autonomous robot swarm; collaborative tasks; distributed control; distributed sensing; fixed robot nodes; intelligent distributed network; mobile robot nodes; mobile wireless sensor network; reliability; user-defined control task; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; Mobile robots; Robot sensing systems; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

Toronto, ON

ISSN

1522-3965

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4967-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2010.5561767

Filename

5561767