Distributed sensing and data collection via broken ad hoc wireless connected networks of mobile robots
(2000)Abstract
This paper reports on ongoing work to develop ad hoc wireless networking for application in distributed mobile robotics. The paper discusses amission scenario in which a number of mobile robots are required to autonomously disperse into a physically bounded region, take sensor readings at predetermined time intervals, and then communicate the sense data back to a single collection point. There is assumed to be no overall command and control structure. The robots are assumed to be equipped...