DocumentCode
2471398
Title
On Sensor Coverage by Mobile Sensors
Author
Gupta, Vijay ; Jeffcoat, David E. ; Murray, Richard M.
Author_Institution
California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA
fYear
2006
fDate
13-15 Dec. 2006
Firstpage
5912
Lastpage
5917
Abstract
We study the problem of using a small number of mobile sensors to monitor various threats in a geographical area. Using some recent results on stochastic sensor scheduling, we propose a stochastic sensor movement strategy. We present simple conditions under which it is not possible to maintain a bounded estimate error covariance for all the threats. We also study a simple sub-optimal algorithm to generate stochastic trajectories. Simulations are presented to illustrate the results
Keywords
distributed sensors; scheduling; stochastic processes; bounded estimate error covariance; mobile sensors; sensor coverage; stochastic sensor movement strategy; stochastic sensor scheduling; Cost function; Force sensors; Monitoring; Probability distribution; Scheduling; Sensor systems; Steady-state; Stochastic processes; Switches; USA Councils;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Decision and Control, 2006 45th IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN
1-4244-0171-2
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CDC.2006.377220
Filename
4177412
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