Robotic deployment of sensor networks using potential fields
- 1 January 2004
- conference paper
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2004. Proceedings. ICRA '04. 2004
- Vol. 1, 642-647 Vol.1
- https://doi.org/10.1109/robot.2004.1307221
Abstract
Deploying large numbers of sensors has been receiving a lot of attention for detection of hazardous biological or chemical substances in public buildings, airports, shallow water harbors, etc. The sensor-carrying robots are in fact agents that facilitate the repositioning of network nodes in order to increase their coverage and accuracy. Wireless network communication is an essential technology in transmitting the sensed and telemetry information between robots, but it has traditionally been addressed separately from mobile robot navigation. In this work we propose to use a potential field framework to control the behavior of the mobile sensor nodes by combining classical robotic team concepts (obstacle avoidance, goal attainment, flight formation, environment mapping and coverage) with traditional sensor network concepts (node energy minimization, optimal data rate and congestion control, routing in ad-hoc networks). Simulation results are used to illustrate the proposed concepts, and an experimental mobile sensor fleet is built at the author's institution.Keywords
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