Towards the Deployment of a Mobile Robot Network with End-to-end Performance Guarantees

— Communication is essential for coordination in most cooperative control and sensing paradigms. In this paper, we present an experimental study of strategies for maintaining end-to-end communication links for tasks such as surveillance and search and rescue where team connectivity is essential for providing situational awareness to a base station. We consider the differences between monitoring point-to-point signal strength versus data throughput and present experimental results with our multi-robot testbed in outdoor environments.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: ICRA
• Authors: Mong-ying A. Hsieh, Anthony Cowley, Vijay Kumar, Camillo J. Taylor
• Keywords: End-to-end Communication Links, ICRA 2006, Point-to-point Signal Strength, Robotics, Situational Awareness